Once you decide to start using software test automation there are a myriad of questions. Those should be approached even before you start practicing test automation. Which framework to chose? Which technology is best? What scales well and up to my needs? Shall we go Selenium-based or Cypress? Or slaughter the piggy bank and go for Tosca suite or premium solutions? No matter how you start and what your demands are, you’ll end up with a short-list of solutions you want to check out. Once you formed your short list, you’d usually like to practice test automation with each of those solutions. How else could you decide which solution is the best fit for your budget and your requirements. baangt is free and open source, so no worries about the budget here.
Practicing test automation with your real application landscape is considered too time consuming. To get a quick comparison of several candidate solutions it’s nice to have a fairly complex scenario. “Hello World” doesn’t cut it. , that lets you experience the ups and downs of the different solutions without spending hours and hours for each test. With https://webdemo.baangt.org you’ll find a free and fairly complex demo application where you can test a majority of common web functionalities, for instance iFrames, check-boxes, form fields, buttons and much more. When you install baangt you’ll find already a lot of scenarios in the examples folder, many of them for this page.
You can record the interactions for this page once and use it for each of the solutions on your short list. Running the same scenario in different solutions will give you great comparison accuracy.
There’s more than just record and play when practicing test automation
But don’t just stop at recording and playback. Also practice other features during evaluation of the selected test automation tools. Examples include reporting, analytics, communication of test case results, logging of changes to test case definition and test case data and others.
Practicing test automation also means debugging
Also debugging is a major concern – especially for up- and coming applications. With baangt you’ve many handy tools and processes when a test case turns up failed. Compare that to other solutions before you make your decision.
What you can’t do with this demo site
This demo site will always answer pretty fast. There is no backend, no checks, no worker involved. In real world scenarios your application and your test automation will have to deal with latency. Also there’s no heavy javascript in this demo page. Your application under test will have lots of heavy java scripts. Also the behavior on different browsers is not different. You can run your practice of test automation on Safari, Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer. It will always provide the same results. This will be different in your real world application.
So why bother with a demo site?
It gives you a quick look and feel to practice test automation with different frameworks or solutions in a short time. At least working with the demo site should enable you to quickly reduce your short list further. If you reduced to two or maybe three candidates from 10 or 20 imagine how much time you saved in the process!
Getting started quickly with baangt open source test automation
Check this link or head over to our Youtube channel to learn about the different ways how you can install baangt right now. Or go directly to the download page and get started right away.
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