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Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices

Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Kovalenko
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Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices

Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices

3.9 (11)
By: Kovalenko

Overview of this book

Selenium WebDriver is a global leader in automated web testing. It empowers users to perform complex testing scenarios with its simple and powerful interface. This guide will provide you with all the skills you need to successfully create a functional Selenium test suite. Starting from the very beginning of the Selenium IDE, this book will show you how to transition into a real programing language such as Ruby or Java. You will quickly learn how to improve your code quality with refactoring and the skills needed to plan for the future development of your website to future-proof your test suite. With ample test examples running against a life-like e-commerce store and detailed step-by-step code review and explanations, you will be ready to test any challenge web developers might throw your way. This book is intended for anyone who wants to create a test suite that is easy to maintain by expanding your knowledge until you feel truly confident and comfortable with Selenium.
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Introducing test fixtures

In software development, test fixtures (fixtures) is a term used to describe any test data that lives outside of that particular test, and is used to set the application to a known fixed state. Fixtures allow us to have a constant to compare individual test runs against.

Fixtures work best in any environment that is high on the accessibility scale. If we are testing on the localhost or in the CI environment, we can start with a completely empty test database and fill it up with fixture data. When the tests are ready to run, the tests will know the exact state of the application, how many registered users we have, prices of every product, and so on. Let's take a look at a sample fixture, which was used to create a product on our website:

Introducing test fixtures

A script parsed the YAML fixture file and then inserted the YAML data into the website's database. As you can see, our fixtures are really simple and easy to read. This is a great advantage of using the YAML format for data...

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