C# and the disappearing PageFactory – My next steps in Selenium testing

C# and the disappearing PageFactory – My next steps in Selenium testing

This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series Building a .Net Core PageFactory Framework

Being an Open Source project maintainer is a thankless task Ask Jim Evans, the maintainer of the C# (aka dotnet) language bindings for Selenium Webdriver as well as as the Internet Explorer driver that I am sure just about everyone who has ever written a Selenium test has used. Until I started my new job at Altitude Angel 16 days ago I had spent very little time worrying about the C# language bindings as I have been working in Java. As…

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Shortened build.gradle
Finally JUnit 5 has native support in Gradle

Finally JUnit 5 has native support in Gradle

As promised, this time I am taking a look at the support that is offered for JUnit 5 now that we are more than 6 months past the official release of JUnit 5. If you have read through the process of developing this test suite, you will be aware that I had to use JUnit’s own JUnitPlatform Gradle plugin to run my test suite. This works just fine, but it is clunky, requires a LOT of code and most frustratingly…

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Implementing Page Blocks

Implementing Page Blocks

I’ve been looking forward to getting around to this for some time. A chance to have a  go at extending WebDriver’s default PageFactory implementation. So what do I mean by a PageBlock? On many websites there are reusable panels that appear on many pages. Many are repeatable blocks within a page and are used in lists such as the article summaries on the homepage. Others occur on many pages throughout a site but are unique within the page such as…

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Injecting the WebDriver not the manager.

Injecting the WebDriver not the manager.

Sorry! I forgot to mention last time that I was having a week off to spend some quality time with my long suffering wife and kids. I have added a fair deal of code, and I don’t plan on explaining all of it here, just the most relevant. Last time, I managed to get dependency injection working, but not in a way that I was at all happy with. My decision to create WebDriverManager classes led me to create a…

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Dependency injection and abstraction.

Dependency injection and abstraction.

Every rose has its thorn. In the unlikely event that you have read all of my posts, you will be aware that I have had a try at dependency injection before but wasn’t happy enough with the results to push them. After looking at it this week I have managed to understand where my difficulties lie and and implement a solution that works. I’m still not really happy with it, but its enough to be able to get going on…

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