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 27.2.1). You find a sample at
qftest-5.3.2/demo/keywords/simple_business.
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| Test-step |
| Launch SUT, if necessary |
| Open vehicles dialog via Options -> Vehicles |
| Enter data (name and price) |
| Press new in order to create the vehicle |
| Press OK in order to close the dialog |
| Check creation of vehicle in table |
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| | Table 27.1: Test-case using business-related keywords | |
Option 2: Atomic test-steps (see subsection 27.2.2). You find a sample at
qftest-5.3.2/demo/keywords/simple_atomic.
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| Test-step |
| Launch SUT, if necessary |
| Select menu 'Options' |
| Select menu 'Vehicles...' |
| Fill text-field 'Name' |
| Fill text-field 'Price' |
| Press button 'New' in order to create the vehicle |
| Press button 'OK' in order to close the dialog |
| Check table, whether new created vehicle appears |
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| | Table 27.2: Test-case using atomic keywords | |
Option 3: Behavior-Driven Testing (BDT) from a technical perspective (see subsection 27.4.1).
You find a sample at
qftest-5.3.2/demo/keywords/behaviordriven.
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| Test-step |
| Given SUT is running |
| Given vehicles dialog is opened |
| When vehicle name is set to <name> |
| And vehicle price is set to <price> |
| And button new clicked |
| And button ok clicked |
| Then row with <name> and <formatted-price> appears in table |
| And column model has value <name> |
| And column price has value <formatted-price> |
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| | Table 27.3: Test-case with Behavior-Driven Testing from a technical perspective | |
Option 4: Behavior-Driven Testing (BDT) with business keywords (see subsection 27.4.2).
You find a sample at
qftest-5.3.2/demo/keywords/behaviordriven_business.
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| Test-step |
| Given application is ready to enter vehicle data |
| When vehicle created with <model> and <price> |
| Then <model> with <formatted price> appears in table |
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| | Table 27.4: 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 27.4. 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-5.3.2/demo/keywords/.
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 27.3) 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.
