Automate and Integrate with AIO Tests

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Automation plays a critical role in modern software testing. It enhances the efficiency, accuracy, and coverage of tests, making it an indispensable part of the software development lifecycle.  The growth of automation testing over the years has been significant, driven by the increasing complexity of software applications, the need for faster release cycles, and advancements in technology.  The global automation testing market size was valued at USD 12.6 billion in 2020 and is projected to reach USD 28.8 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 16.4% during the forecast period.

Tools and Frameworks

1. Selenium: Selenium remains one of the most popular automation testing tools. According to the State of Testing Report 2021, Selenium is used by 54% of organizations.
2. New Entrants: New tools and frameworks, such as Cypress, WebdriverIO, and Playwright, are gaining popularity due to their modern architectures and capabilities.

AIO Tests, being a complete test management solution, supports automation tests and frameworks by providing integrations to give a consolidated view of manual and automation tests in any project.  So how does AIO Tests integrate with these frameworks?

AIO TESTS FOR JIRA + KATALON STUDIO

The AIO Tests plugin for Katalon Studio provides an easy interface to map your automated tests to tests in AIO Tests and report the results of those test cases to Test Cycles in AIO Tests. It is available as a free plugin on the Katalon store.

AIO TESTS + CYPRESS FRAMEWORK

Cypress framework is a JavaScript-based end-to-end testing framework built on top of Mocha, which allows you to write end to end, integration as well as unit tests. Now, AIO Tests supports direct reporting from Cypress.

With AIO Test’s Cypress reporter, AIO Tests simplifies reporting of results from the automated Cypress tests to AIO Tests for Jira.

AIO Tests supports importing Cypress results in 2 ways:

1. AIO Tests Cypress reporter - a NPM package plugin for cypress. As a cypress plugin, it can be configured to report results to AIO Tests directly from cypress.
2. Via Cucumber.json report / via JUnit results XML- Reports generated from Cypress Cucumber preprocessor or Junit file generated from native Cypress can be directly imported in AIO Tests.

What if you are not using Cypress or Katalon?

AIO Tests strives to make it simpler for users to report their results in AIO Tests programmatically. There are many testing frameworks in each language and each framework may have different reporting options. Most test frameworks today expose an XML or a JSON report that captures the execution results.

AIO Tests offers to import results from these reports and simplify case execution reporting. AIO Tests supports importing results from TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber, NUnit, Robot and Newman reports.

And a Swiss army knife to cover it all!

The AIO Tests REST APIs provide programmatic integration with AIO Tests from any test framework in any language.

AIO Tests exposes endpoints to create execution cycles, report status for test case executions and get cycle details and summary for external reporting. The REST APIs give the flexibility to seamlessly integrate your automated tests, written in any language, into AIO Tests and get a single view of all automated and manual execution in one place.

DevOps and CI/CD Integration

The rise of DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices has significantly boosted the adoption of test automation. Automated testing is now an integral part of the CI/CD pipeline, enabling faster and more reliable software releases.

AIO Tests provides native integration with Jenkins and Azure DevOps in the form of the AIO Tests Plugin.

Jenkins plugin can be used to publish results from various test frameworks with an easy to use plug and play post build interface in Jenkins. The plugin wraps the AIO public APIs to import test results from Cucumber (via cucumber.json), TestNG, JUnit, Newman, NUnit and Robot files  or from any framework capable of generating JUnit files like Playwright/WebdriverIO. The plugin is available for all Cloud and Data Center instances.

Azure DevOps AIO Tests Plugin provides yet another easy to use interface to report test results into AIO Tests for Jira, right after the automated tests have run.

For other CI/CD tools like Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab and others, AIO Tests, today, doesn’t provide a native support. However, the results from supporting frameworks can still be uploaded using AIO Tests REST APIs.

Explore AIO Tests for a hands-on experience.

[vasanth]

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