Chapter 5: Tool Support for Testing

Categories of Testing Tools

1. Test Management Tools

• JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr
• Track test cases, execution, defects

2. Test Automation Tools

Selenium WebDriver - Web UI testing

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://example.com")

# Find element and interact
login_button = driver.find_element(By.ID, "login-btn")
login_button.click()

driver.quit()

API Testing - Postman, RestAssured

import requests

response = requests.get("https://api.example.com/users/1")
assert response.status_code == 200
assert response.json()['name'] == "John Doe"

3. Performance Testing Tools

• JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner
• Simulate thousands of concurrent users

4. CI/CD Tools

• Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI
• Automate test execution on every commit

# GitHub Actions example
name: Run Tests
on: [push]
jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Run Tests
        run: pytest tests/

Benefits of Test Automation

✅ Faster execution ✅ Repeatable and consistent ✅ Better coverage ✅ Early bug detection

Key Takeaways

✅ Choose tools based on project needs ✅ Automate repetitive tests ✅ Integrate with CI/CD pipeline ✅ Maintain test automation scripts

Complete Lab 5 to build an automation suite!