Step-by-Step Automation Project Testing with Sauce Demo

This is an end-to-end Selenium WebDriver automation project using TestNG, ExtentReports, and other key tools. The test cases interact with SauceDemo and simulate real-world shopping flow scenarios.

🔐 Login credentials and test data are dynamically read from an external data.xlsx file, allowing for easy data-driven testing.

This project was scaffolded using the Maven maven-archetype-quickstart template.

mvn archetype:generate \
  -DgroupId=com.saucedemo \
  -DartifactId=autodemo \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart \
  -DinteractiveMode=false

🗂️ Project structure created:

autodemo/
 └── src/
     ├── main/java/com/saucedemo/App.java
     └── test/java/com/saucedemo/AppTest.java
 └── pom.xml

Here's the full list of dependencies used in pom.xml:

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>junit</groupId>
    <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
    <version>3.8.1</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
    <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
    <version>4.31.0</version>
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
    <artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
    <version>6.0.1</version>
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
    <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
    <version>7.11.0</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
    <artifactId>poi-ooxml</artifactId>
    <version>5.2.5</version>
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.javafaker</groupId>
    <artifactId>javafaker</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.2</version>
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.aventstack</groupId>
    <artifactId>extentreports</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.1</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

We use Apache POI to read from the data.xlsx file located in the project root or resources.
It contains:

• ✅ Login credentials (standard_user, secret_sauce)
• ✅ Other test inputs like product names

The ExcelUtil class reads the .xlsx sheet and feeds data into tests dynamically.

To execute a specific test class such as PurchaseItem, use:

mvn -Dtest=PurchaseItem test

Or run all tests:

mvn test

Skip test execution during build:

mvn clean install -DskipTests

mvn dependency:resolve

Here’s a simplified workflow of what happens when tests run:

graph TD
    A[Start Test] --> B[Load Config & Excel Data]
    B --> C[Initialize WebDriver using WebDriverManager]
    C --> D[Launch SauceDemo Website]
    D --> E[Perform Login with Excel credentials]
    E --> F[Add Items to Cart]
    F --> G[Proceed to Checkout]
    G --> H[Validate Summary & Order Confirmation]
    H --> I[Generate Extent Report]
    I --> J[Close Browser]
    J --> K[Test Completed]

• 🔍 Built with Maven, Java 17, TestNG, Selenium, and ExtentReports
• 🧪 Supports data-driven testing with Excel via Apache POI
• 🧼 Easy to maintain and extend with modular page object classes