[TIP] What strategies to you use to factor seleniums tests to avoid duplications of the same or similar test steps?

[tarjei]

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Bob Clancy wrote:
> Grig wrote:
>> The 2nd book in the O'Reilly Shortcut series is supposed to cover
>> Selenium RC among other things (<http://selenium-rc.openqa.org/>)
> 
> Is there a planned ETA for the 2nd ShortCut book?
> 
> Will it cover abstracting testcases to reduce duplicate code?  (Such a topic
> seems more like the topic for a whole book rather than a shortcut.)

Hmm, I'm not sure how you define duplicate testcases, but an interesting
approach would be to make a selenium version that only relates to the
html (for example using Webtest[1]) and that discards the commands it
cannot support. Thus you could have a version of your tests running in a
virtual browser that would be a lot faster than a normal browser but
that could still do most of the things you are interested in.

1. http://webtest.canoo.com/webtest/manual/keyCharacteristics.html

Regards,
Tarjei

> 
> thanks,
> --
> Bob Clancy  (9 Lives Software Engineering,  Boston, MA, USA)Grig
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