I am getting stuck making an automated testing framework test, can someone guide me on what could be causing it

[snow_beginner]

Hello,

I have to create ATF tests from smoke tests for my company. One of the tests to be created is as follows:

"Naviagte to company portal and select the "Request Hardwre". Complete all the questions. It doesn't matter what you select or enter"

Expected Result: No approval on this cat item. Ritm moves straight to open and 2 tasks are generated.

The "Request hardware" catalog item has 13 fields and all are mandatory except 2.

To make it into an ATF, I have added 8 steps so far which are:

1) create user - the test doesn't identify to impersonate a user so I had to create one.

2) open a catalog item - here I specify the "request hardware" item

3) Set variable value - here I had added all the mandatory variables from the catalog items (left out the ones that are not mandatory). Since it doesn't matter what the value of these variables is I have given them values of test1 etc.

4) Validate variable values - here I have set the validation to the last variable created in the previous step

5) Set Catalog Item Quantity - set it to 1

Up until this when I run the test it runs fine but in the following steps it fails

6) Add item to shopping cart - if its set to true, the test fails and if its set to false the test passes

7) Checkout shopping cart - again if set to false it works but not if set to true

😎 Order catalog item - fails since previous steps have failed

Why is number 6 not working for me? It is a simple step yet it keeps giving an error, what am I doing wrong?

[Brian Lancaster · Accepted solution]

Is step 6 Add Item to Shopping Cart (SP) test step? I tried this removing some of the steps for variable validation and mind failed on what would be equivalent to your step 7 until I removed setting the requested for. It gave me an error the user does not have writes to change requested for. I also noticed that there was no checkout shopping cart (SP) so maybe you testing shopping cart from the Service Portal is not fully supported.