Behavior Driven Development - Cucumber Automation Framework using Selenium

Jars Used:

cucumber-java - For BDD Cucumber basic features

cucumber-core - For BDD Cucumber basic features

cucumber-picocontainer - For sharing state between steps in Cucumber - JVM

extentreports - For reporting

assertj-core - For Assertions

commons-io - For File streaming - when generating & when reading properties

rest-assured - For API support

json-simple - For parsing JSON response

ExtentManager.java:

Path: src/main/java/com/seleniumcucumber/reports

WebConnector.java:

Path: src/main/java/com/seleniumcucumber/webdriver

The WebConnector.java class contains all the common & core functions that can be accessed across different classes in the framework

Its constructor creates the driver object and can be accessed by StepDefinitions using PICO container (Sharing states)

It reads the property files (project.properties and runTest.properties) and stores the values in the public objects projectProperties and runTestProperties

project.properties contains contains the webelement specifications (xpath/css)

runTest.properties file contains test configurations like environment, browser etc

It also has the basic re-usable functions that can be shared across all the StepDefinitions

GenericSteps.java

Path: src/test/java/com/seleniumcucumber/steps

The GenericSteps.java class contains all the generic step definition functions for basic operations like clicking, entering text etc.,

It uses the @Before annotation of Cucumber api for calling the WebConnector class's initializeReports method so that report will be initialized before the start of test execution

It uses the @After annotation of Cucumber api to quit the driver, flushing logs after the test execution is complete

The below code in this class implements the PICO container

WebConnector connector;    //Uses Pico container. For every scenario, the pico container object gets created and the created object is assigned to connector object.
public GenericSteps(WebConnector connector){
    this.connector = connector;
}

We can add any number of project specific step definition classes like this by implementing pico container in similar way

MyRunner.java

Path: src/test/java/com/seleniumcucumber/

it is the runner class of cucumber which defines the cucumber options

Future Enhancements

Use page object model - page factory to define the objects

Add build.xml (Ant) file to implement Continuous Integration

Add functions and step defenitions to support database validations

Collect all the run time properties from command prompt to run the framework