Background

Selenium WebDriver is a state-of-the-art tool when it comes to functional web-testing. The Page Object Pattern is a design pattern which has become popular in test automation for enhancing maintenability, reliability and robustness of test code and reducing code duplication. A page object thereby is an object-oriented class that follows an model based testing approach. Each page object represents a HTML page of the SUT. The tests use the page object to interact with the UI of that page.

The benefit of this approach is that if the system changes, the tests themselves don’t need to change, only the aquivalent page object has to be adopted.

Working with page objects provides the following advantages:

• Creating reusable code that can be shared across multiple test scripts
• Clean separation between test code and page specific code (locators, …)

Topic Description

Creating and maintaining page objects can differ in a wide variation of ways. Especially maintaining and adopting page objects can cause problems and is done in various approaches.

The goal of this project is to define ways to

• improve the generation / extraction of a page object from a specific webpage
• provide ways to enable easy maintenance for the extension as well as the adjustment of a page object
• support the object identification and page object locator definition to provide maintainable and robust locators

Requirements

• Reliable knowledge in Java
• Knowledge with Selenium
• Knowledge with XPath / DOM object identification
• Completed Software Testing (VU)

Contact

It is possible to accomplish a master thesis or an internship in the context of this project. If you are interested in this project please contact peso@inso.tuwien.ac.at.