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Usage of Screen/Page Pattern (Helperbots) [message #489050]

Thu, 01 October 2009 07:27

Michelle Davidson
Messages: 41
Registered: August 2009

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Hello,

I'm interessted in the using of page/screen objects to write reusable tests.

But with google and the forums search I 't found only pages with few informations and mostly one methode which shows this pattern. At one page they was named helperbots

Has anyone a short but complete example I mean complete class of such an page/screen/ helperbot class or better an complete testplugin.

Or does you now a link, where I can find detailed information about this pattern?

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Re: Usage of Screen/Page Pattern (Helperbots) [message #489072 is a reply to message #489050]

Thu, 01 October 2009 08:45

Ketan Padegaonkar
Messages: 873
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

http://code.google.com/p/webdriver/wiki/PageObjects is what I recommend
to users trying to understand page objects.

The examples use webdriver to explain things, but you'll get the flow of
how things work.

--
Ketan
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On 01/10/09 4:57 PM, Michelle Davidson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm interessted in the using of page/screen objects to write reusable
> tests.
> But with google and the forums search I 't found only pages with few
> informations and mostly one methode which shows this pattern. At one
> page they was named helperbots
>
> Has anyone a short but complete example I mean complete class of such an
> page/screen/ helperbot class or better an complete testplugin.
>
> Or does you now a link, where I can find detailed information about this
> pattern?

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Re: Usage of Screen/Page Pattern (Helperbots) [message #489592 is a reply to message #489050]

Mon, 05 October 2009 03:36

Michelle Davidson
Messages: 41
Registered: August 2009

Member

Hello,

thanks for the link.

I n the bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=280641 Kay-Uwe Graw wrote a small basic libary for the page object pattern.

I want to take this as a basic of my own page objects, which extend this page objects.

But there were a point, which I don't unterstand. In the constructor of his classes for example ViewPageobject he want to have a SWTWorkbenchBot /SWTBot Instance. That means when I create a instance of my pageObject in the tests I must have this bot-instance. But I think, with the page pattern, all swtbot functions remain in the page objects. But in his implementation I need the bot.

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Re: Usage of Screen/Page Pattern (Helperbots) [message #489762 is a reply to message #489050]

Mon, 05 October 2009 15:32

Kay-Uwe Graw
Messages: 24
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Every SWTBotTest has its own bot instance which you can use to create the page objects. The reason of the page object pattern is to hide the way how you simulate the user interaction of your application (with the bot) for certain parts of your gui and not to hide the swtbot instance.

Kay

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