Provar
Automated Testing
The promise
Embarking on a Salesforce project can present some fairly daunting
testing requirements.
You need to prove that your Salesforce functionality works as expected,
with functionality such as complex workfows, custom processing and
reports. Your project will most often need to interface with your existing IT
system, providing a tricky and time sapping end-to-end testing challenge.
You will need to do load and performance testing to ensure your SLAs can
be met. The above becomes so much more challenging in Agile or
phased delivery cycles where you’ll need to ensure that each new delivery
has not broken previously tested functionality.
It is widely accepted that automating this testing provides huge savings in
time and expenditure while greatly reducing delivery risk, for your
currently delivery as well as future deliveries, enhancements and bug
ixes.
But, until now, there has not been a tightly integrated and effective way of
achieving true end-to-end test automation in the Salesforce space.
Some pitfalls
While automated testing is a must-have for most professionally managed
projects, it is not uncommon for test suites to fall out-of-date or become
unmaintainable.
Common reasons for this are:
• Ul-based testing is notoriously brittle and dificult to maintain.
While Provar has strong support for this, we recommend that it be
kept to the minimum.
• Many testing frameworks are very technical, requiring that testers
have specialist skills.
• Many frameworks are cobbled together and fall into disuse when
their creators move on.
• Many commercial frameworks are not user-extendable, resulting
in unacceptably long lead-times when changes are required.
• Many frameworks are tied to a particular technology (e.g. Java or
.NET) which leads to a dead-end when your end-to-end testing
requirement expands.
Welcome to Provar
Provar is a “no code” end-to-end testing tool, which is tightly integrated with
Salesforce. lt delivers the beneits of automated test while avoiding many
of the pitfalls.
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DIFFERENCE WE CAN
MAKE TO YOUR
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Contact Jonathan Bainbridge:
+44 (0)207 960 4197
J.bainbridge@makepositive.com
Provar
Automated Testing
The product
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Tests are created by dragging and dropping test APIs onto a test case
from a palette. No programming skills are required.
Provar has tight integration with SeleniumHQ, allowing you to import
and parameterise existing WebDriver tests and seamlessly create new
ones.
The Salesforce plug-in offers test APIs to test all standard Force.com
functionality together with the facility to execute any APEX code, if
required.
It comes bundled with a rich set of general-purpose test APIs (e.g
database, web, messaging, looping, branching). These can be used to
test almost any existing system.
Provar has been designed with extensibility in mind and creating a new
test API is easy and takes a matter of minutes.
Provar has a distributed test execution design whereby individual test
steps can be executed on different hosts in any language (currently
Java and C# are supported).
Its distributed design makes Provar ideal for load and performance
testing.
Provar's advanced coniguration management features make it easy
to maintain and run your tests against multiple test environments.
Strong support for sourcing test data from external stores such as
Excel spreadsheets or relational databases. This allows you to
manage your test data in a business-friendly format.
Provar test suites can be included in continuous integration builds
(e.g. Jenkins and TeamCity), thereby enhancing your SDLC process.
Architecture
Repository
Eclipse
Selenium
WebDriver
Test Cases
Test Editor
Interactive Runner &
Debugger
Templates
In-memory
Test Execution
Agent (Java)
Test Data
Web
Custom Test
APIs
Management Dashboard
Configuration
Management
Test Results
Test Execution
Controller
Local
Test Execution
Agent (Java/.NET)
SDLC
Test Driven Development
Test Results
Continous Integration
Remote
Test Execution
Agent (Java/.NET)
Provar
Automated Testing
Salesforce driven approach
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Developers will conigure custom objects and ield deinitions in the
Salesforce org and they will manage their own testing using the
Salesforce unit test framework.
Testers to create automated Provar scripts by connecting to the
development Org and creating CRUD tests, leveraging existing data.
They can also call pre-built Provar Salesforce functions and combine
this with Custom APIs and integrated Selenium GUI tests.
Tests are formally run on the irst day of the test cycle and test
evidence can be viewed in the Provar reporting tool or results can be
viewed or stored in the test management tool of choice
Developers to ix and re-run Provar tests manually, in debug mode or
as part of the continuous Integration build. This allows testers to work
on additional tests.
Testers to concentrate on End to End test cases asserting not only the
Salesforce application, but the expected results in a downstream
application
This approach not only provides immediate beneits to project, but the
automated test script will then be used in the Regression Test suite
ensuring a signed off piece of functionality. The same scripts can be run on
multiple servers for load or performance testing and against any
environment by simply re-coniguring the test at runtime.
5 ways to cover all your testing requirements
with Provar
1. Tight Integration against your Salesforce project by connecting
directly to your development organisation whilst authoring tests.
• Ability to drag and drop test data and expected results from a
previously executed manual test run
• Access to Salesforce ields and data when updating test data
• Salesforce API suite for features such as object approval
• Ability to bulk load and assert data
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2. Support for running custom Apex code
• Developers can provide access to their own implementations
which were previously inaccessible to the tester
• Ability to write custom APEX code using the force.com plugin and
use Provar to parameterise and expose this functionality to tester
• Supports returning of parameters from Execute Anonymous calls
3. Support for Salesforce UI testing
• Drag and drop UI test steps from your Org and re-use existing data
• Locators anchor to metadata not to labels which create robust
tests
• All Salesforce wait issues and browser quirks taken care of
• No code for Salesforce Layouts and report testing
Provar
Automated Testing
4. Support for Visualforce UI testing
• User extendible Page Object implementation
• Anchors to metadata making it resilient to Label changes, location
on pages and environment changes.
5. End to End testing
• Support for Application versions, Environment Variables, Variables
date logic and Static data repository
• Provar provides rich API support for Database, Asynchronous
messaging, Web Services, ile based operations and many more...
• Uses the best features of Xpath2 and regular expression, but are
exposed as easy to understand features for a non-technical tester
• Supports debugging step mode which includes the ability to view
Variables
• Negative tests and comprehensive Assert functionality built in
• Reporting tools
DISCOVER THE
DIFFERENCE WE CAN
MAKE TO YOUR
PROJECT
Contact Jonathan Bainbridge:
+44 (0)207 960 4197
J.bainbridge@makepositive.com