Open Source your mind:

Jdi path

ROMAN IOVLEV

Chief QA Automation

In Testing more than 12 years

In Testing Automation 10 years

• INTRO

• CHAPTER 1: VIQA - BEGINNING

• CHAPTER 2: GGA SELNIUM - LEGION

• CHAPTER 3: JDI - SYNERGY

• CONCLUSION

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AGENDA

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INTRO

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OPEN SOURCE

• Free

• Features already implemented

• Features already tested and proved on many projects

• You can see feedback and discuss features

• …

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OPEN SOURCE

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OPEN SOURCE - CONS

• Not all things can be OpenSource

• In most cases you have no guaranties*

• Rarely you can get detailed documentation

• No guaranties for your needs priority*

* Except charge support

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OPEN SOURCE - МИНУСЫ

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WARNING

•Use good proved solutions

• Save your time and effort

•Grow your tech skills

•Compare existing solutions

In case of nothing pleasing you – create your OpenSource

•No other frameworks solve your problem

• Some frameworks solve some of your problems but some can’t be solved due to architectural issues

• Framework freeze and or team not responsive

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WHEN TO START YOUR OWN PROJECT?

Note: In other cases better join to good project

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MY FRAMEWORKS

SQA DAYS 15GITHUB

1. I-Free

VIQA (C#)

Model Tests Generator

DB Utils, Services Utils

2. LiveTex

VIQA (Java)

VIQA-TDG

3. JDI

Web

Mobile

Desktop

Http…

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CHAPTER 1:

VIQA - BEGINNING

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BEGINNING

•Weak C# version

•No logging

•No chances to add logging

•No ways to override elements behavior

1. I-Free

Model Tests Generator

DB Utils, Services Utils

VIQA (C#)

Yandex Html Elements

• Framework for UI testing

• Language C#

• List of typed elements (Button, Dropdown, Form etc.)

•Any elements action can be customized

• Integrated logging on actions layer

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VIQA

Mar 4, 2014

VIQA (C#)

• This is interesting!

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WHY?

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REASONS TO GO OPEN SOURCE

• Code quality

• Usability

• Documentation: Description / Examples / Tutorials

• Support: CI/CD. Tests

Project quality

•Why not?

•New skills / knowledge / practice

• Soft Skills: Presentation, discussion

•Portfolio, respect

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PRESENTAION

SQA DAYS 15

• Few new users

•Barantsev comment

Every TA should develop its own

bicycle above Selenium

For project?

For me?

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LIVETEX - JAVA

• I-Free fall down

•Become QA Director

•…

•Profit!

• Interesting job

• Salary grow

•VIQA on Java

• Free access for all repository

• Simple way to show your experience to friends

• Not do your project very popular

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OPEN SOURCE AS IS

•1 Contributor

•74 Commits

•7 Stars

•1 Fork

•1 Issues

•0 Pull requests

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OPEN SOURCE AS IS Mar 4, 2014

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CHAPTER 2:

GGA SELENIUM -

LEGION

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EPAM – OPEN SOURCE

Life science

• Pipeline Builder• New Genome Browser• Miew – 3D molecular viewer• Indigo – chemical search tools• Parso – clinical dataset reader

Popular

• JDI – UI Automation Framework• Report Portal – Continuous reporting

• libObjCAttr• Merlin• XFramework• Wilma• Gepard• Constellation• Rapier

Other

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GGA SOFTWARE - EPAM

Середина 2014 года• Pipeline Builder• New Genome Browser• Miew• Indigo• Parso• GGA Selenium Framework• … 10+

Open Source

Покупает

GGA Software• GGA Selenium Framework

• Internal project

• Client want to use projects with proven quality

• ???

•Go to Open Source

•Profit!!!

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OPEN SOURCE

May 30, 2014

•8 Contributors

•417 Commits

•30 Stars

•38 Fork

•0 Issues

•0 Pull requests

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OPEN SOURCE IN TEAM May 30, 2014

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ГЛАВА 3:

JDI - СИНЕРГИЯ

•31 Contributors (8/1)

•718 Commits (417/74)

•84 Stars (30/7)

•1.7 (3.5/3.3) Years

•88 Forks (38/1)

•88 Issues (0/1)

•74 Pull requests(36/1)

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OPEN SOURCE PROMOTION

No one know your excellent framework?

•Hard to start use it

•Can’t understand/No examples

•Better OpenSource products present

•Unclear contribute procedure

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FIRST PROBLEMS

VIQA и GGA Selenium – both in OpenSource but

• Small amount of users (10-20 men)

•No one contribute. Developed only by authors

Pros:

• VIQA – Flexible architecture

•GGA Selenium – many different functions

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GGA + VIQA = JDI

Jan 14, 2016

Just put project in OpenSource is not enough. You should promote it!

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PROMOTION

• Simple manual, examples• Dozens of tutorial tests (in total 500+)• Lessons as presentations

•Promotion• Dozens speeches on Conferences • In 7 cities• 1 Meetup• Site, VK (154 men) and Facebook groups, • Skype Chat (80 men)

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WHAT WE DO?

• Feedback monitoring (forums, support)• Stack overflow• Surveys, mail contacts, Skype Chat

•Actual tasks on Scrum board

•Contributors support• Personal• Tutorial

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WHAT WE DO?

•30+ Contributors

•A lot of project use our framework (100+)

•Popularity

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RESULT

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ЗАКЛЮЧЕНИЕ

• Employee motivation(newcomers and regular)

•Accumulate ideas except loosing potential

•New clients

•More framework features

•More areas covered (web, mobile, desktop, http, bdd, chrome plugin etc.)

•More languages (Java, C#, Python*)

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RESULT: FOR EPAM

• This is cool

•Professional grow (tech skills, knowledge etc.)

AOP, Python, Reflection, Lambdas etc.

• Respect

• Portfolio

• More potentials

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RESULT: FOR ME

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WHY YOU NOT IN OPEN SOURCE?

•А что можно?

•Да мои поделки никому не интересны

•У меня плохой код/боюсь критики

•Мой тестовый фреймворк очень сильно связан с текущим проектом/окружением/доменной областью

•Все права на мой проект принадлежат заказчику

•…

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5 SECRETS FOR GOOD FRAMEWORK

0. Think about Open Source from the beginning

1. Split you framework from production project

2. Independency from project Specification

3. Project Customization – Single responsibility principle

4. Pay attention to Feedback

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OPEN SOURCE PROMOTION

1. Talk about your project

2. Site, Social networks, meetups etc.

3. Simple fast feedback

4. Users and contributors list at start

5. Quizzes and votes

QUESTIONS

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http://jdi.epam.com/

https://vk.com/jdi_framework

https://github.com/epam/JDI

roman.Iovlev

Contacts

romanyister@gmail.com