My Innovative Solution to Test Automation: Run the same test against a different server with a click of a button

Very helpful on bug fixing.

This is included in the “My Innovative Solution to Test Automation and Continuous Testing” series.

“It worked on my machine” is one of the most popular excuses used by programmers. Programmers like to say that because there are usually several server environments: the issue reported by the tester could be a server infrastructure issue, not code, as it is fine on my local machine.

Table of Contents:
· A typical set of server environments
· The need for running the same test against different servers
· Automated Test Scripts (Selenium) that support multi-servers
  ∘ Run the same test against different servers from the command line
· Set up server environments
· Change the target server environment

It somehow that nearly all software projects agreed on server environments' naming and purposes, even those not taught at universities.

• Local or Development
  on the developer’s local machine.
• Dev
  a trial server for developers freely deploys immature builds.
• Test ( or System Test, or Integration)
  the main server for performing functional testing.