NestedFlow- Automation

NestedFlow Automation is a free, AI backed, ever evolving, graphical, flow chart like Test automation framework to build scalable, reusable automation test cases and easily manage them. Tool can be used as Model Based Application testing tool in which each test case is represent as easy to understand flow charts Please refer to the introductory Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm7px2cduqw

What is Test Automation Framework

It is a group of components that work towards executing test cases and facilitate comprehensive reporting of test results

Constituents of Test Automation Framework

• Automation technology that will help operate UI and other components
• Object Spy to capture testable component properties
• Object information management
• Object Reusability
• Integration with other technology
• Reporting Mechaism
• Support For Android Mobile Testing
• Can be integrated with Cloud based infrastructure for remote device testing
• Integration with Test management tool
• Support multiple development methodology
• AI features
• Test Data management

Automation Technology

• Tool uses Windows automation framework for automation of windows dektop components
• Uses Java Access bridge to automate legacy Java desktop objects
• Selenium to automate HTML
• Sikuli and Tesseract to support OCR

Object Spy

Tool offers 3 separate object spy to facilitate the HTML, java and windows objects Also, it is possible to store the object information in files or database for easy retrieval and usage

Integration

Tool is a C# based codebase and can be integrated with Visual Studio, Appium, GenRocket, GitHub, ALM, Perfecto etc.

Reporting

Provides custom, simple HTML, Text reporting and tool can also be configured to create PDF reports Also provides Extent Report test log output

AI

Supports basic OCR features performs action suggestions for HTML objects Intelligent Web object capture based on AI XPathless testing ability by using AI based object search

Data Management

• Supports Excel, API based data delivery, Text based data, XML etc. Also supports parameters
• Integrated with Faker and inbuilt repository to get most common test data
• Provides Commonly used data elements

Modernization and Extension

• Easy to reuse components
• Test cases look like flow chart so easy to understand and maintain
• Centralized object Repo
• Integration with GitHub
• File/database or Github based script storage
• Supports C# scripting to support extended scenarios
• Command line execution
• Parallel Execution Of Test Cases

Development Methodology

• Supports BDD,keyword or Data driven approaches

Supported Testing Types

• Windows UI based Automation
• Web Page (HTML) testing
• Java legacy UI testing
• Android App Testing by Appium integration
• Selenium grid based solutions

Play and Record

• Tool doesnt provide traditional record and play instead it provides the reverse. Simulation of action on screen so that the derived script is correct the first time itself without much modifications

Software link

Version 1.5: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nestedflowautomation/files/NestedFlowAutomation_1.5.zip/download

Version 1.4: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nestedflowautomation/files/NestedFlowAutomation_1.4.zip/download

Version 1.3: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nestedflowautomation/files/NestedFlowAutomation_1.3.zip/download

Version 1.2: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nestedflowautomation/files/NestedFlowAutomation.zip/download

Version 1.1: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nestedflowautomation/files/NestedFlowAutomation1_1.zip/download

Version 1.0: https://sourceforge.net/projects/nestedflowautomation/files/NestedFlowAutomation.msi/download

Contact

nestedflowautomation@gmail.com