Devlopment tales

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Firstly, what are Page Objects? Here is a definition from the Selenium team: Page Object is a Design Pattern which has become popular in test automation for enhancing test maintenance and reducing code duplication. A page object is an object-oriented class that serves as an interface to a page of your AUT. The tests then use the methods of this page object class whenever they need to interact with that page of the UI. The benefit is that if the UI changes for the page, the tests themselves don’t need to change, only the code within the page object needs to change. Subsequently all changes to support that new UI are located in one place. Using Page objects in test cases has been very useful. It will feel hard and time consuming initially but, once you have all page objects up and running. Its going be a smooth ride . Till now writing test cases for an Angular Apps has been smooth ride. Thanks to some good articles online to get me going. I have found some very helpful resour...

I came across an interesting article on AngularJS internals authored by Nicolas Bevacqua . This article gives a very clear understanding of the entire idea of scoping! AngularJS presents a remarkable number of interesting design choices in its code base. Two particularly interesting cases are the way in which scopes work and how directives behave. The first thing anyone is taught when approaching AngularJS for the first time is that directives are meant to interact with the DOM, or whatever manipulates the DOM for you, such as jQuery ( get over jQuery already !). What immediately becomes (and remains) confusing for most, though, is the interaction between scopes, directives and controllers . Read more...

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