Aww Moment of FEB 2021: ITIL Internal Foundation Level Clearance

Hey Guys!!! Greetings For The Day!!!

In this Post would like to share one of my achievement in this month. Cleared the ITIL Foundation Level - Internal Certification organized by my firm Billennium IT Services (M) Sdn. Bhd. Although not a Global one but Company held training, it was on my learning list for almost a year, and now happy that I have an understanding of it. 

A big thanks to Vikas, Mariusz the respectful Directors of my firm Billennium IT Services (M) Sdn. Bhd. and the Billennium Malaysia, KL HR Team for organizing this amazing learning experience. A Big Thanks to you all once again 😇

Happy to share my Certificate with you all Yippeee!!! Here it is ITIL Certification - Jency Stella

Happy Learning 😇

Happy Billennial 😊

#Billennium #Billennial #BillenniumSquad #BillenniumKL #BillenniumMalaysia 

API Testing 'A Beginners View': Data-Driven Testing In Postman

Hi Everyone!!! Let's check out some details about Data-Driven Testing with Postman using CSV and JSON files😊

Data-driven testing can be a very effective approach in testing an API against different data-sets. Postman supports CSV and JSON files to get data for the test scripts. The data-driven approach is useful when we need to execute a test with multiple sets of Data. Also, modifying or adding any data fields will just need updating the data files which is easier than going to test script and updating test data. 

To explain the same I’ll use a sample request which I use in my daily work.

Steps to do this:-

1. Now, in this example, I want to refer Row_No, UCI_Number, and Entity_ID from a CSV file. So, as a pre-requisite, we need to define these in a variable. In order to do so in the Pre-request Script tab we need to set the variables as in the screenshot, so that going ahead values will be read from variables.
2. Create a CSV file having these variables and values.
3. Now go to Collection Runner, and import this data file and click on the Run button. Data File Preview:

After hitting on the run:

Run can be stopped any time of execution:

API Testing 'A Beginners View': Newman API Testing

Hi Everyone!!! Let's check out some details about NEWMAN 😊

Newman gives the capability of running Postman collections through the command line. It basically helps you automate your Postman tests with ease.

Got some insight on this from my daily worklife. So why wait Let's get started! 

Basic Steps of NEWMAN Kickstart:

1. Step 1: Install NodeJS
2. Step 2: Install Postman's Newman
3. Step3: Create a Collection and Running Tests Scripts
4. Step4: Exporting Postman Collection and its associated Environment file if applicable
5. Step5: Running the Collection in Newman

Step1: Install NodeJS

Installing NodeJS is pretty straight forward, visit their download page here, download your platform version to install.

Note: Kindly make sure to install the latest higher version.

After installing, go to your Terminal and enter the command below to check if everything is fine to go.

• node -v 
• npm -v

You should see an output similar to the one below:

 

Step2: Install Postman's Newman :

Now that NodeJS is set up, we need to install "Newman" and some NodeJS modules that will be useful for our test report generations.

Run the below command:

• npm install newman request rimraf newman-reporter-html newman-reporter-htmlextra --save --force

After installation you will see similar output:

Step3: Create a Collection and Running Tests Scripts

In Postman select "New" >> "Collection". Give a name to the collection. I’ll be using a sample collection in my local which has Test Scripts designed already just for the purpose of the explanation.

Sample Collection with Test Scripts:

 

Step4: Exporting Postman Collection and its associated Environment file if applicable

Under the ‘View more actions' option of the collection, select ‘Export’.

Save the Collection to your local directory. The collection should be saved as a .postman_collection json file.

Note: To export the environment variables, Go to the ‘Manage Environment’ section from the top right corner and click on Download, environment file will be downloaded as .postman_environment json file

Step5: Running the Collection in Newman

Open the terminal and navigate to where the Postman Collection and associated environment json file is saved. To execute the tests run the below command:

newman run Jenkins-Testing.postman_collection.json -e Reltio-MDM-UCI.postman_environment.json --export-environment Reltio-MDM-UCI.postman_environment.json

Similar output will be prompted:

Collection executed successfully through the command line.

Now somebody might think why did I pass the environment file twice in a different way. Let me explain it why? 

The Collection that I used above for my explanation needs an access token to be generated freshly for each run. Could we not just attach a token to the tests, export the collection and put them into our CI? No we can’t. That would work for a while but the tests would fail once the access token expires. So any access token I attach to my Postman collection to run in CI is eventually going to be invalid.

We need a way of automatically generating a fresh access token and passing it into our Postman tests. In CI terms, we need to be able to generate an access token on every run of tests. In order to achieve this, I have added an environment variable to store the access token that gets generated by a request of Authentication. So now when we send a request for an access token we can now grab that access token from the response and attach it to any future responses we need. But wait a min by POSTMAN the scenario will work fine but NEWMAN does not update the environment variables file during a run of tests. So to save the new values of the environment variables after a collection run, simply add this argument when running the collection that updates the variables: --export-environment OurEnvironmentFile

In our case :

newman run Jenkins-Testing.postman_collection.json -e Reltio-MDM-UCI.postman_environment.json --export-environment Reltio-MDM-UCI.postman_environment.json

That’s it and now we are familiar with the basics of NEWMAN.

Hope the article was useful! Happy Learning! 😊

API Testing 'A Beginners View': How to receive notification of POSTMAN Test execution completion in GOOGLE CHAT ROOM

Google chat API is an interesting API that lets you to get notification of the Test Scripts execution completion for every run. Just install GOOGLE CHAT in your machine and follow the below steps and that’s it

Steps to it:

1. Create a room in Google chat (Addin the member's list).

2. Room is setup:

3. Select “Manage webhooks” as displayed below:

4. Type any name as per your need and click save:

5. Copy the link to the Clipboard. Open your collection/folders, just add this as a new POST request to the existing ones.

6. Click on  “Send”:

In this BOT you can add some Test Scripts based on the previous requests execution status to showcase the Test Report.

Sample is below:

var resp = JSON.parse(responseBody);

console.log(resp);

  //Checking the Response Status Code

    pm.test("Response is Successful with Status Code 200", function () 

    {

    pm.response.to.have.status(200);

    console.log("Response is Successful with Status Code 200");

    });

// this counter is from previous step (in your script need to define it)

to check the completion of run

 const counter_check = pm.environment.get("counter");

 if(counter_check == 10) 

 {

     pm.test("Execution Passed" , function () 

        {

        console.log("Execution Passed");

        });

 }

 else 

    {

        pm.test("Execution Failed" , function () 

        {

        pm.expect.fail('Execution failed, please check test results of previous steps');

        });

    }

 

Happy Learning 😇

Hope this was useful 😇

Basic Collection for Beginner’s to kick start with POSTMAN - API Testing ‘A Beginners View’

Hello Friends!!!

Here is a simple collection for Beginners like me to kick start with POSTMAN 

Collection URL:

https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/12559118/Tz5p6xux

This collection contains:

• Basic test syntax

• Sample ‘Test Scripts’ to get started with POSTMAN

  Resources

  Do check the Blog for a detailed description of the requests

  • Blog: https://softwaretestingcafebyjency.blogspot.com/ 1

Happy Learning!!! 😇