After a month of pushing my gray matter as far as it will go (which isn’t all that far compared to some of the people I know) I have implemented the next generation of automated testing on my project.
No it isn’t using excel to generate tests like some people claim, although that does have it’s place. I have implemented a stack based on the design used in the expression team as described by Michael Hunter aka “The Braidy Tester”.
This transforms a test case that was like this:
using (IE ie = new IE("http://www.google.com"))
{
ie.TextField(Find.ByName("q")).TypeText("WatiN");
ie.Button(Find.ByName("btnG")).Click();
Assert.IsTrue(ie.ContainsText("WatiN"));
}
to
Logical.Search(DataProvider.GetProvider("SearchForWatin"));
The next layer down is:
public static void Search(DataProvider dataProvider)
{
object[] parameters = {dataProvider};
executioner.Add(parameters);
SearchModel searchModel = new searchModel();
searchModel.OpenSearchPage();
VerificationManager.ActionStarting(parameters);
searchModel.Search(dataProvider);
VerificationManager.ActionEnding(parameters);
}
then onto the “guts” of the test in the physical model.
public void Search(DataProvider dataProvider)
{
SearchTDO search = DataProvider.GetSearchTDO();
controller.SetValue(Controls.Search.Google.txtSearch,
search.SearchText);
controller.Invoke(Controls.Search.Google.btnSearch);
}
In case you didn’t notice, WatiN is fully abstracted away out of the tests, as is the test data, verification and the intent of how things are done. This increases the complexity significantly, but it also allows us to handle changes VERY easily.