silverorange QA Automation Specialist Exercise

This exercise is designed to assess how you approach tasks required as a QA Automation Specialist at silverorange. We are interested to see how you work as well, as what your final results are; include useful Git commit messages and comments where you think your code may be unclear.

Please do not include your name or any other self-identifying information in code or commit messages as silverorange will anonymize your work before reviewing.

For the test automations, please commit tests inside this Git repository and provide access to silverorange.

The Application to Test

This Git repository contains a sample application that needs to be tested. The application allows adding and removing items from a list. The application is simple and not connected to a database, so reloading the page will clear the application state.

The tasks we are asking you to complete, and instructions on how to run the application are detailed below:

Tasks

(A) Writing a Test Plan

• Write a test document to test adding a new item to the list.
• Include testing of error states.
• It should be possible to follow the document to manually test the application.

(B) Automate the Test Plan

• Using any framework or language of your choosing, write an automated version of the test plan.
• Include instructions on how we can install and run the automation.
• Add an additional automated test for removing items from the list.

(C) Unit Testing

• The application has some simple validation functions in src/validations.
• Using the built-in Jest testing framework, add unit tests for these functions.
• See src/components/Form.js for an example of how to import and use the validation functions.
• See src/App.test.js for an example of how to create a test case in the Jest framework.
• You can run tests with yarn test

(D) Next Steps

• In a text file, describe future improvements or additions you would make to the automated testing system for this project.
• If you have time, implement some or all of these recommendations.

Running the Application

This is a create-react-app React application. To run the application on your machine, you will need the following pre-requisites:

• Node.js version 12 or greater
• Yarn

If you are using macOS and Homebrew, the following command will install the pre-requisites:

brew install node yarn

With the pre-requisites installed, follow these steps to run the application:

1. Clone the Git repository to your machine
2. Inside the repository, run yarn install
3. Inside the repository, run yarn start

This will open the application in your default web browser at http://localhost:3000.

Running the Unit Test Framework

Create-react-app integrates Jest by default. Files named *.test.js are automatically included in the test suite. The test suite can be run with:

yarn test