You're reading from Learning Behavior-driven development with Javascript Create powerful yet simple-to-code BDD test suites in JavaScript using the most popular tools in the community

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784392642

Length 392 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

jQuery

Concepts

Web Programming

Author (1):

Enrique Javier A Rubio

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Welcome to BDD FREE CHAPTER

2. Automating Tests with Mocha, Chai, and Sinon

3. Writing BDD Features

4. Cucumber.js and Gherkin

5. Testing a REST Web API

6. Testing a UI Using WebDriverJS

7. The Page Object Pattern

8. Testing in Several Browsers with Protractor and WebDriver

9. Testing Against External Systems

10. Final Thoughts

Index

Chapter 7. The Page Object Pattern

In this chapter, we will try to better organize the test codebase we created in the previous chapter. In order to do so, you will learn the Page Object pattern. This pattern will allow us to simplify our test code and encapsulate the complexity of using WebDriver and accessing the DOM in a nice object that we can reuse across all of our codebase.

In this chapter, you will learn:

What the Page Object pattern is and why to use it
Best practices to design a page object
How to save code by designing a library of small reusable page objects
How to build a page object using WebDriver
How to properly test the navigation logic of our application (do not do this in the page object)

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Authors (1)

Enrique Javier A Rubio

Enrique Amodeo is an experienced software engineer currently working and living in Berlin. He is a very eclectic professional with very different interests and more than 15 years of experience. Some of his areas of expertise are JS, BDD/TDD, REST, NoSQL, object-oriented programming, and functional programming. As an agile practitioner, he uses BDD and emergent design in his everyday work and tries to travel light. Experienced in both frontend and server-side development, he has worked with several technical stacks, including Java/JEE, but since 2005, he prefers to focus on JS and HTML5. He is now very happy to be able to apply his JS knowledge to the server-side development, thanks to projects such as Node.js. He also has written a book in Spanish on designing web APIs, following the REST and hypermedia approach (https://leanpub.com/introduccion_apis_rest).

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