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Version 4.7.1 |
| Introduction |
The concept of keyword-driven testing allows business analysts and testers to describe test-cases without any deep QF-Test knowledge. Those test-cases can either be described in a meta-language or directly in a testmanagement system. QF-Test will then read and execute those test-cases. The implementation of the underlying test-steps inside QF-Test needs to be done by engineers having QF-Test knowledge.
Business testers and QF-Test engineers are free in defining the way how to describe test-steps. They can define a wide range of keywords like simple action-related keywords (e.g. click a button) or more complex business-related keywords (e.g. create an object inside the SUT). Combining test-steps into a test-case could be achieved by a strict table-oriented approach like clickButton=OK or formulating the test-steps in continuous text like "Close the dialog via click on ok".
The following examples illustrate the most popular variants of defining test-cases in a keyword-driven manner. The demo test-case will create a vehicle in the CarConfigurator demo application of QF-Test.
Option 1: Business-related test-steps (see subsection 26.2.1). You find a sample at
qftest-4.7.1/demo/keywords/simple_business
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| Table 26.1: Test-case using business-related keywords |
Option 2: Atomic test-steps (see subsection 26.2.2). You find a sample at
qftest-4.7.1/demo/keywords/simple_atomic
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| Table 26.2: Test-case using atomic keywords |
Option 3: Behavior-Driven Testing (BDT) from a technical perspective (see subsection 26.4.1).
You find a sample at
qftest-4.7.1/demo/keywords/behaviordriven
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| Table 26.3: Test-case with Behavior-Driven Testing from a technical perspective |
Option 4: Behavior-Driven Testing (BDT) with business keywords (see subsection 26.4.2).
You find a sample at
qftest-4.7.1/demo/keywords/behaviordriven_business
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| Table 26.4: Test-case with Behavior-Driven Testing from a business perspective |
In the subsequent sections you will find a more detailed description of those variants of keyword-driven testing with QF-Test. The concept of Behavior-driven testing (BDT) is described in section 26.4. From a perspective of QF-Test BDT is just a special variation of keyword-driven testing.
All samples use the CarConfigurator of QF-Test which is also provided by the installation.
You can find all samples in the folder qftest-4.7.1/demo/keywords/
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In order to show the test planning aspects we provide Excel files containing the required test-steps. Of course you can
also go ahead and use your testmanagement tool to plan test-steps. We are using Excel files as Excel is a very common piece
of software and reading Excel file is quite simple in QF-Test.
The section keywords with dynamic components (see section 26.3) describes how to use QF-Test just as test-executor without really recording steps within QF-Test. You need to interact with QF-Test only in rare cases when applying this scenario.
Please take care to copy all test-suites to a project-related folder first and modify them there.
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