Test Automation

What else do I need to master when learning Selenium WebDriver?

This particular case study demonstrates how I think about testing and incorporate automation into my test approach.

I don’t really like keyword driven frameworks. For a whole bunch of reasons that I won’t go into now, since you came here to learn how to write them.

Well, here’s the secret…

This is old tech. Older than old.

The August 2012 edition of Professional Tester contains an article I wrote to help promote the Eurostar 2012 conference and my WebDriver tutorial at the conference. The article was entitled “Abstraction in Action” and it provides a brief overview of some automation code abstraction principles and models.

I have released the cheat sheets that I provide during WebDriver training courses.

On 22nd February 2013 I presented a webinar covering the basics of refactoring to Page Objects and other parts of an abstraction layer. The coding was done live, with me talking about the thought processes and reasons as I went.

TLDR; I don’t start coding with patterns. I code for value, then generalise as needed. I refactort to abstractions, some of which use patterns.

On 8th February 2013 I presented a webinar covering the basics of how to get started and some basic refactoring.

Hands up who uses generalisation in their modelling strategies? Me too! Here are 5 classifications I use for thinking about the WebDriver API.

I have started to move the site over to WordPress, starting with the blog entries and during the conversion process I remembered to re-learn a little bit about SQL.