[A must read for all SDETs and Automation Engineers].
This time Zhimin Zhan provides a number of code examples for improving test maintainability.
When you can run automated tests often, and the application changes all the time, it is important that test scripts are: Quick and easy to maintain. Easy to read.
The leading reason for test automation to fail is that the team fails to maintain its automated scripts. In this article, Zhimin Zhan helps to understand some simple and practical tips at the test steps level that can help you make your automated functional tests more maintainable. These techniques are:
- One Test Script Line for One User Operation
- Default Parameter Value
- Extend function behaviour with optional Hashmap