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Month: September 2017

Sorry, Scrum, a malfunctioning factory and the ‘Definition of Done’

Sorry, Scrum, a malfunctioning factory and the ‘Definition of Done’

Sorry! Many apologies for the delay in this post, but sometimes life just gets in the way. Last week’s post was always going to be a challenging one. With 2 Birthdays, my wife returning to work from maternity leave and my 3 year old son starting at nursery it was set up to be a busy week. Then on Monday afternoon I was offered the chance to spend the next 2 days on Geoff Watts’ Certified ScrumMaster Course in London….

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Starting with the Page Object Model / Page Factory

Starting with the Page Object Model / Page Factory

Breaking news. Today is my 47th Birthday and it seems that the JUnit team have given me a birthday present with the announcement of JUnit 5.0 General Availability Release today. As of now, it is not in Maven central so I’m still with the release candidate, but I look forward to checking it out soon.   I have started off this blog looking at some of the basics of setting up and running basic tests using JUnit and Selenium WebDriver….

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Creating AbstractTest classes to reuse our startup code

Creating AbstractTest classes to reuse our startup code

So where were we? Oh yes, last week I was investigating JUnit 5 asserts and deciding that generally I don’t like them. It is safe to assume then that I will mainly be using Assertj for my assertions. We also got our first test passing in a way that won’t fail if I decide to change my WordPress theme again. One test is all very well, but what if I want to write many tests. As I demonstrated last week…

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