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Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices
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Test tool independence occurs when the test suite is not heavily integrated with any given testing tool. For example, switching from Selenium 1 to Selenium WebDriver is difficult, because both tools use different methods to locate and click on page elements. If we wrote our framework in such a way as to hide these changing methods from the test, all we need to do to upgrade to Selenium WebDriver is update the find_element
and click
methods to use the new WebDriver API. This practice is referred to as the Adapter pattern. In the previous example of this chapter, the SidebarCart
class acts as an adapter between the test and the instance of Selenium WebDriver by translating the add_to_cart
method call into a WebDriver click
method.
In software design, Adapter pattern is used to map functionality of different objects that have different interfaces. Adding an adapter object between the two objects that wish to communicate with each other does this; the adapter...
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