Author: <span>Oleh Husiev, Anastasia Husieva</span>
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A couple of words about Page Object

Often in the testing of web applications, every form on a page is described as a separate entity (object) – usually, one single form (in most cases it represents an isolated functionality) is equal to a separate class. All these objects/classes consist of web element instances (various web elements located on the related web form) and methods for interaction with the elements. Let’s imagine there is a Login form in a web application. The form may be described as: public class Login { IWebDriver driver; public Login(IWebDriver driver) { this.driver = driver; } //the class contains only one method //this …

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Dark side of a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

A lot of people have an opinion that a software development engineer in the test is a more difficult, more responsible, more skilled position than that of an automation QA engineer who is actually just a ‘tester’. It’s because the SDET is almost a software developer: he deeply knows programming languages, design patterns, algorithms. He can create a high-quality, maintainable, and performant code. He creates tools for automated testing, writes his own frameworks – such kind of work is more complicated and, therefore, should be better-paying. That’s why many automation test engineers like to name themselves an SDET, alluding to …

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Smart click (part 1)

When using the Selenium Webdriver tool for testing web-based applications, I faced a problem: sometimes the common Click() method does not work for specific elements. Or, for example, it may work fine in the FF browser and fails to click in Internet Explorer. After a little investigation, I noticed that instead of the Click() method I can use methods from the Actions class, or I can click elements with JavaScript. But I also discovered that I have to use one action for FF and another for IE – often an action worked with one browser but failed with the other. I …