Testing and Quality Assurance Guidelines

• Reima Parviainen 2023

This page collects testing and QA guidelines for the WIMMALab 2023 projects

We discuss on the Discord #testing-and-qa text channel.

Our Test Server

• Ask for credentials and or privileges from Reima.

• https://squash.wimmalab.org/squash

• This is our SquashTM server! Follow these guidelines when working in it.

Tools used

Gitlab

• Minimum requirement for you testers!

• IF YOU FIND A BUG/QA ISSUE/ETC ASSIGN A TICKET (=issue) TO THE PROPER PERSON ON GITLAB (check student id somewhere or ask)

SquashTM

• We are using SquashTM for our test management purposes. It's a powerful tool for test documentation. With some practise you can get nice looking graphs and reports from your test runs.

• It also has a two-way ticketing system with Gitlab repositories.

• Read the official documentation https://tm-en.doc.squashtest.com/v5/introduction.html

• Also go check their Youtube -tutorials https://www.youtube.com/@squashteam

RobotFramework

• For test automation

• Connection with RobotFramework scripts and SquashTM is possible.

• https://robotframework.org/

WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools

• Browser extension for Accessibility testing.

• Useful for checking website structure.

• https://wave.webaim.org/

Selenium

• Browser automation

• https://www.selenium.dev/

Playwright

• Playwright enables reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps.
• https://playwright.dev/

Browser Library

• Browser library is powered by Playwright and it provides speed and reliabiltiy (Has been recommended by alot of test engineers)
• https://robotframework-browser.org/

Pen and Paper

• Yeah really. Write the steps and results down.