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Index Terms
- Testing web applications with state objects
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Amos O Olagunju
Effective techniques for concealing web page complexities in end-to-end testing of web applications require the use of page objects. But how should page objects be constructed for successfully testing alternative web applications__?__ What should be the actions and test scenarios of targeted page objects__?__ Van Deursen offers great insightful solutions to these questions in this lively professional practice article. Indeed, tools such as WebDriver, which provide page or state objects, support information hiding and the use of an application program interface (API) for implementing domains of web features on top of web pages. The author illuminates the power of formal languages, such as the unified modeling language (UML), in support of the use of state charts and objects to test the various displays and responses of web browsers to varieties of events like user registration and authentication. So why should web application developers read this compelling practice article__?__ The author presents real-world explanatory applications of state graphs and transition trees for testing several web features. The presentation of the use of WebDriver and state objects to test an AngularJS PhoneCat application is lively. Certainly, state objects should encapsulate the details of browser interactions in web applications. Web developers ought to be free to hide test scenarios of web features in any robust complex web design process. Consequently, the author advocates the use of object machine states for modeling the development and testing the actions and behaviors of end-to-end web applications. I strongly encourage all educators of current and future software engineers working on web service design and implementation to read and take advantage of the web testing ideas in this paper. Online Computing Reviews Service
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