Comments on: Putting Selenium in the right place http://gojko.net/2009/10/06/putting-selenium-in-the-right-place/ Building software that matters Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:50:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Yauheni Sivukha http://gojko.net/2009/10/06/putting-selenium-in-the-right-place/comment-page-1/#comment-68801 Yauheni Sivukha Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:21:04 +0000 http://gojko.net/?p=1253#comment-68801 Page Object pattern is definitely what is needed to involve first while testing trough UI. I automated smoke tests for several enterprise web application and tried to gather my experience here: http://slmoloch.blogspot.com/2009/11/design-of-selenium-tests-for-aspnet.html Page Object pattern is definitely what is needed to involve first while testing trough UI. I automated smoke tests for several enterprise web application and tried to gather my experience here: http://slmoloch.blogspot.com/2009/11/design-of-selenium-tests-for-aspnet.html

]]> By: Nat Pryce http://gojko.net/2009/10/06/putting-selenium-in-the-right-place/comment-page-1/#comment-62308 Nat Pryce Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:21:59 +0000 http://gojko.net/?p=1253#comment-62308 I also discovered that pattern when using TDD from the GUI inwards to build a system about two and a half years ago, and I've applied it successfully a couple of times since then. We mention it in the book I wrote with Steve Freeman, "Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests" (http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com). I also discovered that pattern when using TDD from the GUI inwards to build a system about two and a half years ago, and I’ve applied it successfully a couple of times since then. We mention it in the book I wrote with Steve Freeman, “Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests” (http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com).

]]> By: Antony Marcano http://gojko.net/2009/10/06/putting-selenium-in-the-right-place/comment-page-1/#comment-62025 Antony Marcano Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:02:06 +0000 http://gojko.net/?p=1253#comment-62025 Thanks for the write-up Gojko, For the record, the interaction design inspiration came from Kevin Lawrence during a workshop he and I were both at. This clarified my thinking on it. An example of and 'activities' oriented approach can be seen with the ChangeTheContent and NavigateToTheHomePage activities in these <a href="http://bitbucket.org/testingreflections/jnarrate/wiki/Examples" rel="nofollow">jnarrate examples</a>. See http://bitbucket.org/testingreflections/jnarrate/src/tip/JNarrateExamples/src/org/jnarrate/example/sut/action/ChangeTheContent.java for an example of an activity. (There is another layer of indirection in the form of a facade (in this case, abstracting WebDriver). Thanks for the write-up Gojko,

For the record, the interaction design inspiration came from Kevin Lawrence during a workshop he and I were both at. This clarified my thinking on it.

An example of and ‘activities’ oriented approach can be seen with the ChangeTheContent and NavigateToTheHomePage activities in these jnarrate examples.

See http://bitbucket.org/testingreflections/jnarrate/src/tip/JNarrateExamples/src/org/jnarrate/example/sut/action/ChangeTheContent.java for an example of an activity. (There is another layer of indirection in the form of a facade (in this case, abstracting WebDriver).

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