Password Generator Test Plan

Objective:

Create an automation test suite to test all the functionalities of the Password Generator feature.

Tools: Python, Selenium, Robot Framework

URL: https://www.security.org/password-generator/

Set up

Python3

Create a virtual environment for the project

# Install venv if not yet
sudo apt install python3.10-venv

# Create a virtual environemnt for the project
python3 -m venv .venv

If successful, the folder .venv should be created. Run ls -la to see the folder.
Activate the virtual environment

source .venv/bin/activate

After activation, we should see the virtual environemnt name in the prompt of the command (venv)
Install packages pip install -r requirements.txt

For more information, please visit here.

Execute test cases

To execute the whole test suite, run

robot -d results PasswordGenerator.robot

# results is the folder that stores the output of the test run
# PasswordGenerator.robot: Test suite name

To execute a specifit within the test

robot -d results -t $TESTCASE_NAME $TESTSUITE_NAME

To execute test cases with a specific tag

robot -d results --include $TAG $TESTSUITE_NAME

Structures

There will be two main folders: Resources & Scripts

Resources

This folder contains all the neccessary resources for the automation scripts to run. Within this folder, there is another folder POM and two robot files main.robot & setup.robot.

main.robot: the main resource files that import all other resources required for the automation.
setup.robot contains Test Setup and Test Teardown for the automation
POM (Page Object Model): Includes two robot files: pom_BasePage.robot and pom_PasswordGenerator.robot
- pom_BasePage.robot: contains all global variables used for the automation
- pom_PasswordGenerator.robot: contains all variables, locators, keywords used for automating test suites on page Password Generator.

Scripts

Contains automation test scripts and includes results folder and the main Test Suite PasswordGenerator.robot

results: the folder in which output of automation tests will be stored.
PasswordGenerator.robot: The main Automation Test Suite which contains multiple Test cases. There are total 9 Test cases that cover all functionalies, input validation, edge cases of the features on the Password Generator page. A few edge cases to be considered are password lengths' being out of range (either less than 6 or greater than 32) or no options is selected to generate passwords.

Challenges/Issues

When clicking the copy icon, the text is copied to the clipboard!. However, when trying to access the clipboard, I got a pop-up asking for permissions. Due to security reasons, automating granting the permission is not viable through Robot Framework. So I had to do a workaround, running Python to independtly get the content of the clipboard.

sudo apt-get install xclip
pip install pyperclip

I was having challenges with the regex when testing the passwords with only symbols. From this, I learned that RobotFramework stips one level of backlash \ before using the value is evaluated. Hence, instead of regularly escaping character \[, I had to add another backlash, resulting in \\[. Hence the final regex for symbols look like this [!@#$%^&*\$\$_+\\{\\}\\[\\]:;"'<>?,.\\/\\|~-]`
Each functionalities of the features has been verified. When testing the combinaions of passwords requirements, the results are not consistent. Still working on debugging to yield more consistent passed results.

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