See below... ----- Original Message ----- From: "aidy lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <wtr-general@rubyforge.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 3:20 PM Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] little framework
> Paul Rogers says > >> the ParentClass would have methods to validate that everything is there, >> the title > is correct etc. It also has the code to do the translation of >> the descrptive name ( > eg login_button) to the actual element ( >> button(:value , 'Login Now!') > > Very good idea. I have been struggling with the concept of making > automated acceptance tests OO. What could I do? Have a Login class > with a constructor containing ie.goto(url) - and extend that?? > PMR --> id probably have a goto method for the class, that goes to the correct page, but some pages probably arent directly accessable from a url ( the page displayed after submitting a form for example) . In this case, the login page is quite likely to be accessible. >> class MyLoginPage < SomeParentClass > > would you ever extend MyLoginPage or add additional methods to that > class as needs occurr? PMR --> Id add any methods I needed. Ive been wondering what to do about error messages on the login page. ( ie yo get a message that says "Pass word or username wrong" - is that a new class ( LoginPageWithErrorMessage < MyLoginPage ) , or part of the login class - I cant ddecide. > > Where do modules come into this framework? > PMR --> I think I would do some thing like Module UserScreens class LoginPage... class DoSomethingPage end Module AdminScreens .. end >> Bob Cotton from Rally has doe some similar type things, as has Elizabeth >> Hendrickson. Another guy I have worked with also came up with something >> similar, which makes me think this is sort of okay. > > yes, there are some people who you can more or less have complete > faith in; but not many. > > >> Ive also been using something like this for model based testing, which >> really is >> kind of neat. > > I know nothing of this. Maybe off-topic. Would you consider this agile? > Chris already answered this - google for Harry Robinson - hes the expert. > Would you mind me looking into these ideas, and if I tag your name on > - blogging them or adding them to the wiki or something? > PMR --> go ahead ! > aidy > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-general mailing list > Wtr-general@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general > _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list Wtr-general@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
