Integrating everything together

Requirements of a test automation framework:

• Implementation of continuous integration testing where tests are run each time a build changes or as a business needs.

• An external data source is required to keep test data.

• Integration with test management tools

• The test case has JMS services exposed over IBM MQ so we need a handler for the JMS message. We need reports to be generated and sent by e-mail to destined stakeholders

So, after analyzing the preceding requirements, lets simplify them:

• We need a data-driven framework

• We need to have a solution where we can invoke the UI

• We have an exposed web service so we would need a handler or a tool integration for the same

• We need the test case repository to be updated automatically when automated test runs.

• We need to generate reports and e-mail automatically.

• We need to integrate the framework with tools like Jenkins.

So the big question is how do we do it? Let's take it step-by-step:

1. Data driven framework.

   Solution: we have...