four crucial tips for automated web 2.0 testing

W9 Test Automation

5/1/2013 1:45:00 PM

Four Crucial Tips for Automated Web

2.0 Testing

Presented by:

Jim Holmes

Telerik

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Jim Holmes

The Test Studio evangelist at Telerik, Jim Holmes has more than twenty-five years in the IT field as a PC technician, WAN manager, customer relations manager, developer, and, yes, tester. Jim has previously held jobs in the DoD, software consulting domain, and commercial software product sectors. He has been a long-time advocate of test automation and has delivered software on a wide range of platforms. Jim coauthored the book Windows Developer Power Tools, blogs frequently at FrazzledDad.com, and is the president of the board of directors for the CodeMash conference, held at an indoor water park in Sandusky, Ohio, in the middle of winter.

Four Crucial Tips for Web Automation

Jim Holmesjim.holmes@telerik.com@AJimholmesFrazzledDad.com

Slides:frazzleddad.com

Samples:github.com/JimHolmes/SE13

Three main automation pains

Locators

Dynamic content

data and configuration

Ground Rule

There’s only one:

There are no best practices!

Take today’s concepts

Learn how to apply in

YOUR SYSTEMS!

Locators

What’s a DOM?

IDsCSSXpathOther Attribs

Handling Dynamic / AsyncSituations

While keeping your sanity

(mostly)

Page load lifecycle

Along came AJAX

And Jquery and backbone and…..

Implicit waits

Explicit waits

Simplify Your Tests via Setup & Teardown

Test case granularity

Learn the concepts

Learn how to apply in

YOUR SYSTEMS

Jim Holmesjim.holmes@telerik.com@AJimholmesFrazzledDad.com