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Introducing the Watir Page Helper gem
I’ve very recently released a watir-page-helper gem that provides some useful helper methods when creating page models when using Watir-WebDriver (I chose not to support Watir as it doesn’t work on...
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Removing local page references from Cucumber steps
I’ve been giving some thought about the maintainability of having local page object model references in Cucumber steps. To explain what I mean, here’s some code of mine from an Etsy page model step:...
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Watir-page-helper has been end-of-lifed
Intro I am happy to announce that the watir-page-helper gem has been end-of-lifed: meaning no further development will happen on it and it will remain as it stands. I am thoroughly supportive of...
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Roll your own page objects
There seems to be a lot of focus being put into page object ruby gems at the moment. Cheezy has done a fantastic job of the aptly named page-object that supports Watir-Webdriver and Selenium-Webdriver,...
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WebDriverJS & Mocha Part 3: Page Objects
I recently shared how to get started with WebDriverJS and Mocha, and how to use hooks. This post continues on from there: I will share how to set up our own page objects to model our application for...
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AMA: Page Object Best Practices
Anonymous asks.. What do you think is best practice for storing element locations? I’ve heard about having an “Element map”, a single place where all element IDs or methods for location are stored. Is...
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AMA: R.Y.O. Page Objects 2.0
Michael Karlovich asks… Do you have any updated thoughts on rolling your own page objects with Watir? The original post is almost 4 years old but is still the basis (loosely) of every page object...
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AMA: more details about our JS e2e tests
Satyajit Malugu asks… Saw your recent post on JS vs Ruby. As a recent migrant from Ruby to JS for mobile test automation – couple of questions 1) how are you doing page objects (ES6 works too) 2) Are...
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