Serenity BDD is an open source automated testing library geared towards writing high quality, highly maintainable automated acceptance testing, and using these acceptance tests to produce world-class living documentation. In this article, we look at how to get Serenity to generate its reports in different directories, in both simple and multi-module Maven projects. By default, Serenity…
Assertions are an important part of any test automation framework, and Serenity gives us many options. You can of course use standard JUnit, Hamcrest or AssertJ assertions at any point in a Screenplay test. But more recent versions of Serenity Screenplay provide an alternative approach, which many developers find easier to use and faster to…
This tutorial show you how to get started with REST-API testing using Serenity and Cucumber 4. Get the code Git: git clone https://github.com/serenity-bdd/serenity-rest-starter.git cd serenity-rest-starter Or simply download a zip file. The starter project The best place to start with Serenity and Cucumber is to clone or download the starter project on Github (https://github.com/serenity-bdd/serenity-rest-starter). This project…
Serenity BDD is a library that makes it easier to write high quality automated acceptance tests, with powerful reporting and living documentation features. It has strong support for both web testing with Selenium, and API testing using RestAssured. Serenity strongly encourages good test automation design, and supports several design patterns, including classic Page Objects, the…
Serenity BDD provides a number of ways you can integrate your acceptance tests with JIRA. In this article, we look at a few of the more common ones, focusing on integration with Serenity BDD and Cucumber. Adding links to JIRA in your Serenity reports The first and easiest integration with JIRA is to get Serenity…
An extract from The Serenity Book The Screenplay pattern is an approach to writing automated acceptance tests that helps us write cleaner, more maintainable, more scalable automation code. A Screenplay test talks first and foremost about the tasks a user performs, in business language, rather than diving into the details about buttons, clicks and input…
Running parallel tests in Cucumber with Serenity BDD has always been tricky. Until now. People often ask me how to run their Cucumber/Serenity BDD test suites faster. Fast feedback is key to a smooth build pipeline and to an effective test suite. A quick-running test suite means we can know when something goes wrong, and…
Many Serenity users that I work with and talk to have projects with a very large number of tests, spread over many functional areas and many different teams. It is useful to have an overall view of all of the test results, but it is also useful to limit the test results to show only…
