Quick guide for your first test automation

In this quick guide we will run through a bunch of simple steps to get you a super quick feel of Copado Robotic Testing, a hyper-scalable test automation product. In order to accomplish this, you do not need to have any prior knowledge of Copado Robotic Testing or test automation, just an email id.

Goals

By following the steps below, you will run your first test automation cases using Copado Robotic Testing, well under 5 minutes. You will have access to a hyper-scalable test automation infrastructure, a place for all your test results, a dashboard showing test automation statistics, videos and screenshots of your test runs, ability to schedule runs, ability to integrate in your existing DevOps tool chain, access to extremely simple but powerful syntax for creating test automation scripts for multiple platforms, test generation capabilities and for the brevity, a lot more.

Lastly, this will all happen in cloud without you having to set any infrastructure or install anything or build a CI/CD pipeline.

Guide

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  1. Sign up: All you need is a valid email id. Go to Copado Robotic Testing, fill the form and verify your email address.

  2. Provide consent: Privacy and security is very close to our hearts. Please provide your consent to the general terms and conditions and GDPR policy.

  3. Click Quick Start: See a bunch of things on your home page, spot Quick Start button and click it. This will take a few seconds and auto-create a project, a robot and a suite for you.

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  1. Run your first tests: Enable recording for all, enable live streaming and click on Run.

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  1. Analysis: Congratulations, you just run your first test automation in cloud. Stop the timer. You could now look at the run recordings, detailed logs and run time logs.

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  1. Test Cases: You could check out the test cases by clicking on the editor icon and looking withing the tests folder. We are very certain that you could read the test cases and understand what they actually do that is the power of PaceWords. You may also edit these test cases and build your own test cases learning from them.

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Dashboard: Your test automation dashboard is just a click away. Click on the analytics icon to view it. Please note that a part of the dashboard will plot when you have data from more than one day of runs.

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The default dashboard will contain the following information:

  • Latest test run results

  • Daily pass/fail trend

  • Daily usage report

  • Cumulative test cases and their statuses

Once you have signed up for Copado Robotic Testing, you got a license for personal use. You can run 60 minutes of testing every month on your personal projects. You could also checkout a suitable commercial offering from our web.

Summary & Next steps

The quick guide is now over. You created a project, created a full test execution infrastructure ("Robot") with few clicks to cloud, you created a test suite, you run a pre-made test case and you learned how to check the results.

To learn more, you can check our detailed documentation from the navigation pane on the left side. The main sections of documentation are:

Hope you fell in love with our product. Got feedback, write us at servicedesk@qentinel.com.