This webinar discusses best practices for automated software testing frameworks, specifically the popular Selenium WebDriver Page Object pattern, vs. a new approach called an Object Repository

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WEBINAR:
Selenium Page Object
vs
Object Repository
• July 19th, 2018 – Alexey Grinevich

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Agenda
 Page Object Example
 How to Combine Page Object with an Object Repository
 How to Choose Language and Environment of a Test
Framework
 How Page Object pattern is done in Rapise
 Conclusions
 Q & A

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Let’s Look at Page Object
 Based on: https://www.pluralsight.com/guides/getting-
started-with-page-object-pattern-for-your-selenium-tests
 Here is the Demo App

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 Page Object

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Object Repository: Basics
 Basic version

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Object Repository: Resilience
 More options
 Resilience – more stable recognition
 Automatic recovery
 Record, update, re-use

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Object Repository
 Widget type
 Adds known object operations properties (known objects
library)

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 Page Object
 With Java Formalities

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 Page Object
 With Java Formalities
 With OOP Formalities

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 Page Object
 With Java Formalities
 With OOP Formalities
 With Page Object
Formalities

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 Page Object
 With Java Formalities
 With OOP Formalities
 With Page Object Formalities
 With Syntactic Sugar

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Object Repository

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Test Structure

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So How to Implement Page Object in Rapise?
 The “trade offs”:
 Rapise IDE instead of other IDE
 RVL instead of <some language>
 No OOP Formalities
 No Language Formalities
 No Syntax Formalities
 You already have it

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Summary

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Q&A
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