Stacks Testing Frameworks

Building testing frameworks from scratch requires a lot of boilerplate code. It is also hard to know how to get started without examples.

As part of the Amido Stacks projects we have developed a range of testing frameworks for each part of our solutions that are already built in, which can be bootstrapped and tailored to your current project with just one command. In addition they also exist as standalone solutions that can be run cloned and run without the need to build the entire solution can can be modified to applications and workloads outside of stacks.

Bootstrap your framework

The best way to get started, is bootstrapping the framework using the scaffolding-cli from Amido Stacks. By using it in interactive mode, you can simply answer 5 questions to get a bespoke framework, ready to go with an example test.

npx @amidostacks/scaffolding-cli test -i

Interactive questions

✔ Select test framework
✔ Please provide the company name to test for
✔ Please provide the project name to be tested
✔ Please provide test scope (domain)
✔ Select Pipeline Tool

Framework types

	cypress*	Typescript - TestCafe	C# - Selenium	Java - Serenity	jest-sonar*
Framework Type	Acceptance Functional E2E Functional API Component Accessibility Visual Regression	Acceptance Functional E2E Accessibility	Acceptance Functional E2E	Acceptance Functional E2E	Unit Component Integration
Language	Typescript Optional: Javascript	Typescript Optional: Javascript	C#	Java	Typescript Optional: Javascript
Framework	Cypress	TestCafe	Bespoke	Serenity	Jest
Libraries and Tools	Mocha Chai Chai-jQuery Sinon.JS Sinon-Chai Lodash Minimatch Moment Blob Promise	Axios TestCafe Assertions TestCafe API	Microsoft Test SDK Selenium WebDriver ChromeDriver Shouldly BDDfy xUnit	Java SDK Selenium WebDriver ChromeDriver Serenity JUnit	Jest Snapshot @testing-library/react
Integrations	Axe Applitools	Axe LambdaTest			Sonar Scanner
Report(s)	jUnit/xUnit xunit-viewer (single page HTML) Mochawesome (rich HTML results with screenshots)	xUnit	BDDfy xUnit	Serenity reports	jUnit/xUnit Cobertura, lcov (code coverage) Sonar reporter
Browsers	Used: Google Chrome Supported: Mozilla Firefox Microsoft Edge Electron Brave	Used: LambdaTest Google Chrome Supports: Internet Explorer (11+) Microsoft Edge (legacy and Chromium-based) Mozilla Firefox Safari	Used: Google Chrome Supports: LambdaTest Internet Explorer (11+) Microsoft Edge (legacy and Chromium-based) Mozilla Firefox Safari	Used: Google Chrome Supports: Internet Explorer (11+) Microsoft Edge (legacy and Chromium-based) Mozilla Firefox	N/A
Pipeline		AzureDevops	AzureDevops	AzureDevops
Example Test(s)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Example Data Teardown	N/A (stubbed request)	Yes	Yes	Yes	N/A
BDD	Mocha		BDDfy	Serenity	Jasmine
Features	Automatic waiting In browser Element selector tool Spies, stubs , clocks Real time reloads Can use the same environment variables as the webapp	Cross browser Script injection	WebDriver	WebDriver Multi-thread test execution Enhanced reporting	Render
Screenshots +/- Videos	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

* Currently cannot be bootstrapped from @amidostacks/scaffolding-cli, but is available to clone from the amido/stacks-webapp-template repository.

Get testing in just five questions

Get testing

At the end of bootstrapping your example framework, you will have an output that will contain all the:

• Dependencies
• Scripts
• Example tests
• Pipelines
• Environment variables
• ...and information to start testing immediately

Example output from Selenium framework with .NET output folder structure

├── Api
│   └── Builders
│       └── Http
│           ├── HttpRequestBuilder.cs
│           └── HttpRequestFactory.cs
├── Company.Project.E2E.Selenium.csproj
├── Company.Project.E2E.Selenium.sln
├── Configuration
│   ├── ConfigAccessor.cs
│   └── ConfigModel.cs
├── README.md
├── Selenium
│   ├── Components
│   │   ├── CreateForm.cs
│   │   ├── Header.cs
│   │   ├── MenuList.cs
│   │   └── Notifier.cs
│   ├── Factory
│   │   └── RemoteWebDriverFactory.cs
│   │   └── WebDriverFactory.cs
│   ├── Pages
│   │   └── PageObject.cs
│   └── SeleniumWrapper.cs
├── Tests
│   ├── Fixtures
│   │   └── BaseSetup.cs
│   ├── Steps
│   │   └── CreateMenu.cs
│   └── Stories
│       └── GetMenuExampleTests.cs
└── appsettings.json

You are ready to follow the frameworks README.md and run your first test!

Customising

Since the frameworks provide real examples on deployed applications, we recommend using these as examples and then replacing them with your own applications under test.

Feedback

As always, we only improve from the incredible feedback and contributions from people like you. To help us improve, see our contribution guide for more information.