October 31, 2022
Test Automation in Azure DevOps Using Test Plans and Pipelines
Test Automation in Azure DevOps, Test Automation is a very known process in the field of Software Testing. Basically what it does is, automates the test execution phase. All this is possible with the help of special tools that are widely used in the world of testing. Test Automation also compares the actual results with the expected ones.
Azure DevOps is a very great product from Microsoft. It has all the DevOps capabilities. This tool is a real help in many parts like requirements management, project management, reporting, testing management, and release management. It is quite a strong platform to deploy any solution that has been developed.
Writing test cases in Azure DevOps is a very simple process. Firstly a person needs to add the test cases into certain test plans and test suites. Under the test suite which was created as per the requirement, a test case is created which in turn is linked to some item which rests in the backlog. Once that is done one can add all steps to test. It is recommended to add a detailed description of each of the step that is being mentioned. Now, this test case is ready to run. One can assign a tester to do the work.
Visual Studio is a very useful tool developed by Microsoft. It is an integrated development environment used to create programs, websites and many more applications.
Visual Studio is a very useful tool as already discussed. This requires a project template to be created. Under that one is asked to create a normal class for testing. Once this is done under that it is recommended to create your test cases with all the detailed descriptions. Once this is done you can right-click to run the test method. This entire process is very simple to use and implement.
Visual Studio and Azure DevOps are very useful in this process of associating the tests. To the association, few very simple steps are needed to be followed. One needs to open the Visual Studio solution of 2017 or later version. Parallelly one needs to also find the test case in the Azure test plan. This step is done to locate and know the source of the work item. A test explorer window opens. Once it appears a user needs to select the test method which is supposed to be associated. Then a user needs to add the test case identifier and save it.
Creating a test plan using Azure DevOps is again a very simple process. For this one needs a project to be created. After this one needs to go to the Azure test plan. Once a person lands to the parent page of test plans, a user has to click on a new test plan to get a new test plan created. A page will open which will ask to fill in certain details like the name of the test plan, path, and iteration. The user needs to fill all these and then click on create button.
The creation of automation artefacts using Azure pipelines follows a quite simple process. Before that one should be aware of the term artefact. The artefact is nothing but a part of the application that can be pushed to production or can be deployed. Several tools can be used to do so. One can go to the parent page of artefacts and click on create add artefact to get an artefact created for yourself. It will then ask you to fill in some basic parameters like source, project, and version. After filling in all the required details one needs to click on create.
Linking release stages to the test plan is a very essential and useful concept or step in a creation and implementation test plan. Before that one needs to know what is a release stage. The release stage is a concept where a release stage is configured by the user of the test plan while creation. This helps in running the test plan by following a scheduled workflow. One needs to set up the environment of the test plan so that it knows the release stage and the environment. One needs to specify the agent name as well. Once the environment has been set up the user can run the test plan.
The automatic scheduled execution of the test plan from the release stages is a very comfortable process. It becomes really essential for people in this field to learn how to optimize this process. To do this process the releases need to be planned, maintained and deployed properly. Here again, the environment has to be set up with the appropriate job name and name of the release stage. Proper pipelines need to be added in place to help the automatic scheduled execution of the test plan. This process is very simple to use and configure on the tool
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This article covers everything about test automation and what is Azure DevOps. It also gave a brief about writing tests in Azure DevOps. It also covered the steps for writing automated tests using Visual Studio. We also covered a brief about associating the tests from visual studio to Azure DevOps and brief about the creation of test plans using the Azure DevOps for the associated automated tests. The creation of automation artifacts using Azure pipelines was also covered in this article. The Brief about linking release stages to the test plan along with the brief about the automatic scheduled execution of the test plan from the release stages.
October 31, 2022
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