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Four Crucial
Tips for Web
Automation
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Jim Holmes
jim@falafel.com
@AJimholmes
FrazzledDad.com
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Slides:
frazzleddad.com
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Samples:
github.com/JimHolmes/SE13
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The Four
Tips
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0) Learn
What To
Automate
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(And what
NOT
to)
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1) Learn
Your
Locators
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(And When to
Avoid Them)
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2) Learn How
Async
Works in
Your System
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3) Learn to
Handle Data
and
Configuration
Effectively
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Automation
Best
Practices
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There’s only
one:
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There are
no best
practices!
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Take today’s
concepts
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Learn how to
apply in
!
YOUR
SYSTEMS!
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Today’s
Demos:
We’ll test
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The Internet!
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the-internet.herokuapp.com
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github.com/tourdedave/the-internet
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0) What to
Automate
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What
NOT
to
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1) Locators
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What’s a
DOM?
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Locator Types
IDs
CSS
Xpath
Other Attribs
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When to
AVOID
Locators
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2) Handling
Async
Situations
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Page load
lifecycle
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Along came
AJAX
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And Jquery
and backbone
and…..
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Explicit waits
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3) Use
backing APIs
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Simplify Your
Tests via
Setup &
Teardown
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Test Oracles
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System
Configuration
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Learn the
concepts
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Learn how to
apply in
!
YOUR
SYSTEMS
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Jim Holmes
jim@falafel.com
@AJimholmes
FrazzledDad.com