MAF - Modular Automation Framework

An expandable, fast, easy to use automation framework built in the cucumber language. Supports API Testing and SQL Testing in a simple manner. Allows the usage of modules in isolation as well as in an integrated fashion. Utilizes the cucumber language to clearly articulate intent while preserving test data for further debugging and record-keeping. Allows the integration of custom modules and provides a core to allow for simple integration between components.
You can view an example report at: https://maf-test-reports.web.app/

Installation

Dependencies

• node

Create a new npm project using npm init and install the following dependencies:

npm i @cucumber/cucumber --save-dev
npm i @ln-maf/aws --save-dev
npm i @ln-maf/validations --save-dev
npm i @ln-maf/api --save-dev
npm i @ln-maf/mysql --save-dev
npm i @ln-maf/core --save-dev
npm i multiple-cucumber-html-reporter --save-dev

Then create a features directory mkdir features with the following in features/steps.js file:

require('@ln-maf/core/parameter_types')
require('@ln-maf/aws')
require('@ln-maf/validations')
require('@ln-maf/api')
require('@ln-maf/mysql')

Doing this indicates that these modules steps and parameter types are available to use by cucumber.

Modify the package.json to use cucumber:

  "scripts": {
    "test": "cucumber-js -f json:test/report/report.json $EXTRAS"
  },

Please also create a directory to store your test results in the root of your project. To match the above and the below multiReport please run:

mkdir -p test/report

Now, when you run npm t it will run the tests and you can run npx report to get an html report of your test cases.

Hello World API Example

./features/HelloWorldAPI.feature

Feature: View the text "Hello World"
  Scenario: Hello World
    When perform api request:
    """
    {
      "url": "http://www.mocky.io/v2/",
      "api": "5ec540242f00004cb1dc30dd",
      "method": "GET"
    }
    """
    Then status ok
    And item "response" is equal to "Hello World"

The Generated report:

➜  mafMonoRepo git:(master) bash runFeature.sh helloWorld.feature
...

1 scenario (1 passed)
3 steps (3 passed)
0m00.360s


=====================================================================================
    Multiple Cucumber HTML report generated in:

    $HOME/mafMonoRepo/test/report/index.html
=====================================================================================

Hello World MYSQL Example

This requires the setup of your sql environment. To utilize this, please run npx mysql-configure after installing npm i @ln-maf/mysql and it will prompt you for needed credentials, etc. for SQL to run properly. It will store the config in a sqlConfig.json file and it will store your credentials using node-keytar which uses your OS's secure password storage:

• Windows - Credential Vault
• MacOS - KeyChain
• Linux - libSecret

You will also need to update the sql query and update the validations to match. You can copy the validations from the generated report to make sure it passes.

features/HelloWorldSQL.feature

Feature: SQL Hello World
  Scenario: Run a query
      When mysql query from string "SELECT * FROM HelloWorld" is run
      Then it matches set from the file "helloWorldSQL.json"

./helloWorldSQL.json

[
  {
    "id" : "1",
    "hello": "world"
  },
  {
    "id" : "2",
    "hello": "day"
  }
]

Table HelloWorld

| id | hello |
| 1  | world |
| 2  | day   |

Included modules:

There are several included modules, below are links to the READMEs. You can also find them in the projects directory.

Validations - This project contains helper cucumber steps and various ways of setting objects. It additionally performs validations on some of the objects. This would include things like Then item "a" is equal to 5 and When "Hello World" is base64 encoded

AWS - This project contains cucumber steps to run calls on AWS (Amazon Web Services). Supported features include S3, DynamoDB, SQS.

API - This project contains cucumber steps for performing API Calls.

MySQL - This project contains cucumber steps for calling MYSQL.

DefaultSql - This project is used to create other sql modules. Just implement what is in MySQL and read the README to get it set up.

Preprocessor - This contains details about the preprocessor. It is used to add information in feature files and runs before the feature file would.

Core - This contains details about the core. If you are attempting to set up your own cucumber steps it is a good place to start. Specifically for the function MAFWhen. Additionally discusses the parsing of how template literals is done; which is needed to provide easy access to variables within strings.

Variables can be used within almost any step. These can be used as follows:

Feature: Variable example with api

Hello World API Example

./features/HelloWorldAPI.feature

Feature: View the text "Hello World"
  Scenario: Hello World
    Given set "url" to "https://mocky.io/v2/"
    Given set "exampleLiteral" to "${5+5}Works?"
    When api request from file "helloWorld.json" is performed
    Then status ok
    And "${response}" is equal to "Hello World"

./helloWorld.json

{
  "url": "${url}",
  "api": "5ec540242f00004cb1dc30dd",
  "method": "GET"
}

Add a module

Please view AddModule for information on how to add a module. This will allow the creation of new steps that can be used in your project.