Four Tips for More Testable UI

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1. Testable UIs

2. Or: How to help your test automation folks drink less

3. jim@GuidepostSystems.com @aJimHolmes

4. Fortune 10 client Java 6 Enterprise-ready components HP build and

   SCM tools “What’s a unit test?”

5. Thank you ET

6. Generalized Talk Ideas apply to all UI and automation tools

7. https://github.com/jimholmes/ Demo-Site

8. Two main problems in all UI testing

9. Finding Stuff

10. Async

11. Also SharePoint

12. Finding stuff == Locators

13. For Web, prefer: IDs CSS/JQuery-ish Name Custom Attributes

14. As a last resort: XPath

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16. Create Good Locators

17. 0) Own Your HTML

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21. FindElement.ById(“grid”)

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24. 1) Understand your controls / frameworks

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28. FindElement.ByCss( “some big stupid CSS string”)

29. Someone changes style

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33. FindElement.ById( “update-btn”)

34. 2) Tweak dynamic data

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36. Find elements by text content. Might not be granular enough.

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39. No useful attributes

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43. ID is position-based. Data changes, IDs change.

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45. We own the code!

46. Is there some useful data in your objects?

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52. FindElement.ById( contains(“Cobb”) )

53. “Name” isn’t all that useful. Got contract numbers? Project IDs?

    Other stuff? Find good metadata!

54. 3) Make complex async less painful

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56. SharePoint

57. wait until expected condition 1 wait until expected condition 2

    IF SOMETHING wait until expected condition 3 IF SOMETHING ELSE wait until expected condition 4 FINALLY wait until expected condition 342

58. We own the code!

59. Create “flags” when async is complete

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65. Wait until flags.div(responseType=create) exists

66. 0) Add static IDs 1) Tweak controls 2) Use data

    for locators 3) Build flags/latches for complex async
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68. https://github.com/jimholmes/ Demo-Site