S&P Global Contributes CAFEX: A Unified Python Test Automation Framework to FINOS Labs
Dikker, Adam
Dear FINOS Community,
On behalf of the Technology team at S&P Global Market Intelligence, we are thrilled to announce that our project, CAFEX (Core Automation Framework Enhancements), has been successfully included within FINOS Labs!
CAFEX is a comprehensive, Python-based test automation framework designed to simplify and standardize testing across web, mobile, API, and database domains. It provides QA engineers and developers with a single, scalable solution to streamline their entire testing lifecycle.
You can find more details about the project on the host site here: https://github.com/finos-labs/cafex
What Makes CAFEX Stand Out?
- True End-to-End Automation: Go beyond siloed testing. CAFEX provides a single framework to manage UI (web & mobile), API, and database tests in one seamless flow, enabling comprehensive end-to-end validation.
- Built for Modern Data Pipelines: Natively supports complex data validation for ETL and Data Lake environments, making it ideal for verifying data integrity, transformations, and quality at scale.
- Unified Solution: A single framework to manage UI (web & mobile), API, and database testing, reducing complexity and tool fragmentation.
- Flexible by Design: Supports both Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) with pytest-bdd and traditional testing styles (pytest/unittest) to fit your team's workflow.
- Rich, Insightful Reporting: Generate comprehensive HTML reports with screenshots and logs out-of-the-box, with integrated support for external tools like Allure.
- Developer-Centric: Built with simple, intuitive Python modules for handling drivers, API requests, response parsing, and database utilities.
- Modular & Scalable: Install only the components you need. CAFEX is designed for enterprise-scale automation and seamless integration into CI/CD pipelines.
- Clear Documentation: Built-in MkDocs support ensures that project documentation is always clean, accessible, and maintainable.
To help you get started, the framework includes a complete sandbox project (cafex_sandbox_project) that demonstrates best practices and serves as a ready-to-use reference.
Get Started in Minutes!
- 📦 Explore the Project: https://github.com/finos-labs/cafex
- 📚 Install CAFEX: pip install cafex
- 🚀 View Commands: cafex help
- 💡 See Examples: Dive into the cafex_sandbox_project for a hands-on look.
Join Us in Building the Future of Testing
We are incredibly excited to see how the FINOS community will adopt, adapt, and enhance CAFEX. Your feedback, bug reports, and contributions are essential to its growth. Please see our Contributing Guidelines to learn how you can get involved; note that all contributions require a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) sign-off.
Thank you to the entire FINOS community for the warm welcome and support. We look forward to collaborating with you as we continue building together!
Sincerely,
CAFEX Project Team
S&P Global Market Intelligence
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