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Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices Build a powerful, stable, and automated test suite using Selenium WebDriver

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783982707
Length 270 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 Kovalenko Kovalenko
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Writing the First Test FREE CHAPTER 2. The Spaghetti Pattern 3. Refactoring Tests 4. Data-driven Testing 5. Stabilizing the Tests 6. Testing the Behavior 7. The Page Objects Pattern 8. Growing the Test Suite Getting Started with Selenium Index

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed the harmful effects of code duplication on the test suite. As the application keeps evolving, the time required to keep the tests up to date grows exponentially. The solution for this is to avoid code and test duplication by using the DRY testing pattern. We applied the DRY principle by refactoring duplicate code into the setup and teardown methods and other methods that our tests can share.

We also removed the interdependency between our two tests by using the Hermetic test pattern. Removing the Spaghetti pattern from our suite has dramatically increased the test stability. Random order ability was achieved by hermetically sealing our tests and having them use unique data.

In the next chapter, we will be concentrating on test data and how to manage it in different environments.

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