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I am from QA team. My dev team has created pipelines in Azure Data factory. They want me to QA test them. I need to write manual test cases and later after some time I also need to automate this. Please guide me how/ what to test using manual test case. Also suggest me automation tool for later stage that I should use to create automation test cases. Selenium?
You can take a look at this blog post, it really helped me when I started with testing in ADF: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/karang/2018/11/18/azure-data-factory-v2-pipeline-functional-testing/
You won't be able to test everything in Data Factory, at most you can check if connection strings are correct, queries dont break, objects are present (in database or blob storage or whatever you data source is), etc. Testing if the end result of a pipeline is what you intended to do, is highly dependent of the use case and most of the time its not worth it.
I'm not an expert, but as far as I know, Selenium is used to automate browser testing related stuff. Here you won't need a complex framework, you can get away with using a Powershell script as described in the blog post, but you also have other options like Python, .NET, REST api.
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Our Q&A team just changes the settings to see the pipeline behavior, uses not normal data to push trough the pipeline, different time zones and timestamps and etc.. But the majority of the test are the final pipeline results.
I have used a Specflow project (https://specflow.org/) and supporting .Net code to set up the tests and execute the pipeline on test files held in the project. You can automate this into your build or release pipelines.
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I have recently began automating the deployment of all of the Azure resources and other modifications that need to be made to build the dev environments at my company. I started working with Powershell on Linux using the .NET Core release of the AzureRM module. Come to find out, half of the cmdlets for interacting with Azure are present in another module, Azure. Which doesn't have a .NET Core release yet. See my other recent post for additional details on that issue.
I tried running my script today on Windows and it bombed horribly. Probably due to some weird syntactical differences between the platforms or something. I haven't began troubleshooting yet. But this led me to thinking about whether or not Powershell was even the best solution. Can anyone recommend an alternative method?
Preferably something less proprietary with better cross-platform support. I recognize there are similar questions on StackOverflow. But they address entire applications and CI/CD pipelines. I'm mostly referring to the underlying resource groups, security rules, etc. However I will likely also leverage this script to deploy k8s, couchbase, etc as well. So perhaps an entire design change is in order.
I'm looking forward to your insight, friends.
I'm using powershell on linux\windows to deploy resources to Azure without much of a hassle. But for resource provisioning I'd go with ARM Templates to automate deployments, as they can be deployed with almost anything, are kinda easy to understand when you scan through them and they are just a bunch of json.
ARM templates can be plugged into ansible (which I'm using currently) and some other things (like VSTS, Terraform, etc)
Also, Invoke-AzureRmResourceAction and New\Get\Remove-AzureRmResource are available on linux and windows and can be used to do pretty much anything in Azure (but they are a lot trickier than native cmdlets).
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I want to learn Windows Azure to prepare for MCSD Web Development certification. Assuming that I have access to Visual Studio, VMWare, SQL Server etc., is it possible to develop and test Azure applications locally? I want to run Azure on my virtual machine without registering at Microsoft website, applying for any trial periods etc. Any suggestions?
TLDR: You can learn a lot about Azure without an account. Probably enough to pass the test; but maybe not enough to manage a production deployment.
You can learn a lot about how applications run inside of Azure using the emulators (express and full) that are included with the Azure tools for Visual Studio. Microsoft has several decent articles on getting started with the Azure tools. However, there is some tacit knowledge about actually using Azure -- things like how to navigate the management portals (or the fact that there currently are two portals) -- that can probably only be learned through actually using the infrastructure. Those kinds of questions may not be on the test, but the knowledge will definitely be helpful if you ever have to deal with Azure in a professional context. Start with the emulator, build some things that will run on Azure, and once you have a few samples, reconsider using a 30 day trial to actually run something in Azure and get a "feel" for the real thing.
As a side note, the Azure platform has evolved quite a bit over the last several years... if you find yourself reading an article from 2011 or '12, you may want to check again for newer information, as the recommended tools/APIs/etc may be deprecated or just plain gone in the newest SDKs.
The best way to understand Azure without Azure account is to install Windows Azure Pack.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn296435.aspx
Try Microsoft Virtual Academy It's free and if you setup a Microsoft Account you can track your progress. They have a lot of courses on different Microsoft products and I just searched and found a few for Azure.
The good thing I like about the courses is that they are presented by MVP's, MCT's and Microsoft Evangelists, so they know what they are talking about.
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"My team lead just gave me a task to study about Coded UI, then create a program afterwards. He told me to focus on the 'code' rather than 'record'. Honestly, I don't have an idea or background about it. What's on Microsoft's website is too technical for me. Please give me a more simple idea on what it is all about. :) Thanks in advance! ---Intern Here!"
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Sorry for asking a question which is too broad. My account is currently unable to ask questions.
Now, I have better knowledge in Coded UI, thanks to Google. I humbly admit my mistakes. Lesson learned: Google first. Thanks guys.
Coded UI is part of the testing (quality assurance) aspect of Microsoft's software development life-cycle strategy. Coded UI tests are typically created and used by quality assurance folks to verify that code meets the business' requirements. Sometimes they share these tests with developers so developers can better repeat and understand the bugs the tests locate.
Coded UI tests themselves are basically a way of creating an automated test that tests user interface functionality. So for example, you could record navigating to a certain page in the company's application, login and then go to some page where a bug can be be made to happen. Then you could play back that actual 'recording' as many times as you want to see if the bug was fixed. There some other tools that automate stuff like this such as watir. Watir is not a test though to be clear. Just a way of automating browser strokes (and recording them).
Lastly, your team lead says code rather than record. When recording a UI test you actually do it as described above. You click record, go through the steps and then when done click stop. You can also create an automated UI test (also known as Coded UI test) using just code. You can ALSO record a coded UI test I believe and then edit it in code mode.
FORGOT to mention: You can add assertions as a part of your test (much like other forms of code testing). This means you could say that the profile should not allow a box to contain a certain value under certain conditions and the test should fail if this is allowed when the test is run.
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I need to measure how many concurrent users my current azure subscription will accept, to determine my cost per user. How can I do this?
This is quite a big area within capacity planning of a product/solution, but effectively you need to script up a user scenario, say using a tool like JMeter or VS2012 Ultimate has a similar feature, then fire-off lots of requests to your site an monitor the results.
Visual Studio can deploy your Azure project using a profiling mode, which is great for detecting the bottlenecks in your code for optimisation. But if you just want to see how many requests per/role before it breaks something like JMeter should work.
There are also lots of products out there on offer, like http://loader.io/ which is great for not worrying about bandwidth issues, scripting, etc... and it should just work.
If you do role your own manual load testing scripts, please be careful to avoid false negatives or false positives, by this I mean that if you internet connection is slow and you send out millions of requests, the bandwidth of your internet may cause your site to appear VERY slow, when in-fact its not your site at all...
This has been answered numerous times. I suggest searching [Azure] 'load testing' and start reading. You'll need to decide between installing a tool to a virtual machine or Cloud Service (Visual Studio Test, JMeter, etc.) and subscribing to a service (LoadStorm)... For the latter, if you're focused on maximum app load, you'll probably want to use a service that runs within Azure, and make sure they have load generators in the same data center as your system-under-test.
Announced at TechEd 2013, the Team Foundation Test Service will be available in Preview on June 26 (coincident with the //build conference). This will certainly give you load testing from Azure-based load generators. Read this post for more details.
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Can anybody guide me to know what is the basics required to learn COGNOS, whether a person who has an MBA or MIS is trainable even without any basic training on reporting tools?
To effectively learn COGNOS' reporting tools, you should know some SQL (at the bare minimum, its syntax) and DBMS basics. You will also use some "programming" logic such as if/else statements and case statements.
More importantly, you need an intimate familiarity with the data you are reporting against, as you will need to verify your reports once you start building them.
I strongly suggest downloading the COGNOS trial with sample data and going through the install guide. Get it running in your local environment and do some testing there. COGNOS is best consumed hands-on.
Your education level has nothing to do with how you are able to comprehend and utilize a web application. I am nowhere near an MBA or MIS, and the majority of issues I have with COGNOS are related to how it aggregates data.
Javascript (jQuery, preferably) is pretty much a necessary to get more usable interfaces, so knowing that helps a lot too.
Knowing Java can be useful if you are required to work with the SDK. As far as SQL make sure your familiar with joins and different functions of the dialect of database you are using. It is also important to have a basic understanding of HTTP because your often configuring the environment.
Cognos is a powerful tool, so once you have all configured the report authoring is fairly simple. However, based on my experience I would recommend to have the following skills:
1. SQL. Although you can develop lot of functionality in the Framework Manager or even in Report Studio, mapping queries from DB is crucial.
2. HTML. Cognos outputs are rendered in HTML so it would help basic skills here. Besides, the layout uses lot of tables so make sure you understand those concepts well.
3. CSS. Behind the scenes, Cognos uses lots of CSS to styles, themes and defaults. You can even create custom themes. If you're going for a big project, make sure to backup the CSS files and modify everything from there. It is a hardache to modify styles within Report Studio as any minor change would be cumbersome.
If you master these skills, learning Cognos is not such a painful process. Check my tutos in youtube if you like: http://youtube.com/maulazyhola, I wish I had time to write more, but they got some cool stuff that would help you.
In case anything comes up you can post it here, I would be glad to help. Cheers.