XSLT REPORTS

What is XSLT reports?

XSLT stands for Extensible Style sheet Language Transformations. TestNG has default built in html reports which acutally presents a UI report of test scripts but if there is a urge to generate reports with graphical presentation more attractive UI then we can go for xslt reports. XSLT reports are basically more styling done for html which will generate graphical result of test scripts that's been executed.

To get xslt reports

•        Go to project (Eclipse) and create new package(xslt)

•        Create a new file with “ .xsl extension”.

(Or)

•        Paste the testng-results.xsl  in the xslt package

•        Add line to bat file after run as follows

“ant makexsltreports”

•        Now go to project ->test-output->index.html.

ANT

How to run tests using ANT

                  Go to http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi

    Click on zip file below the Current Release of Ant title.

      Unzip to a folder the downloaded zip file(ant)

         Go to My Computer-Properties(Right click My Computer)

        Now go to Advanced system settings

        Click on Environment variables then

Step 1

•        Click on New below system variables(creating new environment variables)

•        Enter "ANT_HOME" in variable name field

•        Enter the path(the extracted folder of ant) of ant in variable value field

Eg:  "C:\\ant\apache-ant-1.8.4"(path)

Step 2

•        Scroll down in system variable and find path in variable column

•        Select path and click on edit

•        Now go to variable value, go to end and type ";"(semicolon)

•        Paste the path of the ant("C:\\ant\apache-ant-1.8.4") and add "\bin"

Eg:

 variable value= C:\Program Files\PC Connectivity Solution\;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_26\bin;C:\apache-ant-1.8.4-bin\apache-ant-1.8.4\bin;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\\ant\apache-ant-1.8.4\bin

•        Now click ok.

This completes configuring ant in your system.

To verify whether ant is configured

        Go to cmd prompt and type ant.

Note:

If u get any error message "Unable to locate tools.jar" then

•        Go to program files where java is installed

•        Now  go to jdk-lib folder

•        Copy tools.jar

•        Paste it in jre-lib folder

•        Now run ant in cmd prompt.

Note:

Next if u get error message" Build.xml file doesn't exist" then

->     Place your build.xml file directly in your project(not in source)

TestNG in Eclipse

Advantage of TestNG

•        After running the test in Testng, click refresh on the project

•        There is folder appearing "test output"

•        Expanding "test output" folder we can see "index.html"

•        Go to physical location of index.html

•        Open index.html in any browser.

TestNG in Eclipse

To Install Testng in Eclipse

•        Go to help menu-Install New Software in Eclipse.

•        Paste below url respective of the eclipse version(Refer the link if you have any doubt "http://testng.org/doc/download.html") in the Work with field.

•         For Eclipse 3.4 and above, enter http://beust.com/eclipse.

•         For Eclipse 3.3 and below, enter http://beust.com/eclipse1.

•        After entering the url you will get the option of "Testng"

•        Select it (i.e Testng) and click next, this should install Testng in your eclipse.

•        Ignore error if you face during the process.

To verify whether TestNG is installed in your system.

•        Go to window-Show view-Other.

•        Expand the Java folder(Show view window).

•        There will be a option displayed as Testng.

Selenium Beginners

Selenium 

Selenium is a free source from thought works. It  has fast growing automation tool. In today's market folks are going towards this automation tool and has grabbed interest of lot of companies. This tool needs the knowledge of any programming language most people go with Java. So in short any developer can easily use this tool with little exploring to selenium concepts.

How to use Selenium?

There is nothing installing selenium, its just configuring selenium. Here I am precise on Java language and will focus on using selenium through eclipse.
To configure selenium - just add selenium jars(Webdriver) to java build path.
Selenium jars can be downloaded free of cost from http://seleniumhq.org/download/ and these jars updated regularly.