Selenium valid Email test case

Question

I have started writting test cases for a project, The first page is login page.

i have started to write test case for valid email adress validation.

 public void LoginValidEmailProvided(string baseUrl)
    {
        _driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(baseUrl);
        UserIdField.Clear();
        UserIdField.SendKeys("abc.xyz.com");
        PasswordField.Clear();
        PasswordField.SendKeys("");
        LoginButton.Click();
    }

Now my question is do we need to write different function for each variation for valid emaiil address checking.

Like on manual testing test usually do

some.com
@some.com
@some
some@
some@@@.com

and many more.

so do we have to write test cases for above varaitions in automate testing. or just one variation is suffucient. as I am checking the return message and comparing with expected and what I get. In each case it returns Invalid credentials. So I have just checked is page contains the message Invalid credentials then the Invalid Emaild address test case passed.

Please advise Thanks

Vicky · Answer 1 · 2015-07-28T07:29:17.357

The better approach would be have two methods one to check valid email address and other to check invalid email address

Advantages of having two methods

You can have valid credentials seperately in a file or a data provider(incase of frameworks) and pass valid credentials only to the check valid_email method and invalid credentials to invalid_email method so that if there is any error you can locate it easily(ex : valid credentials is throwing an error saying that the credentials in invalid) if you combine both the credentials then it will be difficult for you to find which is valid and which is invalid

pseudecode :

public void correct_email(){

enter username and other details

click submit

Get the success page or page title of homepage to check email validation passed

}

public void wrong_email(){

enter username and other details

click submit

Get the error page and compare it with the actual error message

}

EDIT :

1.If you're keeping your valid and invalid credentials together and having one method to validate it how do you know if a valid login credentials failed to login it will also throw an error invalid credentials and you're test will pass and you will not notice this error

2.Moreover if you're using frameworks like ex: testng you will get these data in reports if ur parameterizing your tests so in reports also it gives you a clear view of data passed and failed ie)Parameters run using valid credentials and parameters run using invalid credentials .if you use one method to validate vaiid and invalid credentials all will be listed as one.

Hope this helps you.Kindly get back if you have any queries

The regex checking is already there and that is working perfectly, my question is writing its test cases in selenium for its automation. — Md. Parvez Alam, Jul 28 '15 at 06:18
sry for misunderstanding your question edited my above response...refer it — Vicky, Jul 28 '15 at 06:50
Yes this is what I have done, But do you have any experience in writting automate testing, becuase I want some experienced guy's view on it, Sorry If my wordings hurting you. — Md. Parvez Alam, Jul 28 '15 at 07:04
No probs..iam not hurt..I understand your problem . yes iam working as an automation tester for more than 2 yrs.I have edited my above response .Kindly refer it — Vicky, Jul 28 '15 at 07:30

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 28 '15 at 06:53

    Do not create a different method you can use data provider for each test !!!

(you can write a rapper that the data provider will look nicer )

    http://testng.org/doc/documentation-main.html

    //This method will provide data to any test method that declares that its Data Provider
    //is named "test1"
    @DataProvider(name = "test1")
    public Object[][] createData1() {
     return new Object[][] {
       { "Cedric", new Integer(36) },
       { "Anne", new Integer(37)},
     };
    }

    //This test method declares that its data should be supplied by the Data Provider
    //named "test1"
    @Test(dataProvider = "test1")
    public void verifyData1(String n1, Integer n2) {
     System.out.println(n1 + " " + n2);
    }

will print

Cedric 36 Anne 37

Selenium valid Email test case

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