Maintainable Automation FTW

Adam Goucheradam@element34.ca @adamgoucher

People whinge that their functional automation is brittle.

I say it is brittle. Because they built it that way.

Don’t be them.

Be this guy instead.

Page Objects

Slice up your pages.

Elements

Actions

Uniquely identify everything

Implicit Waits

When you automate GMail...

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