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Easier web app testing by mapping entities to UI objects

Automated, browser-based testing is a key element of web application development, benefiting both simple and complex applications. Writing effective tests for browser-based apps can be a complex, tedious and often repetitive task. In this post, I will be discussing a general approach to write meaningful, loosely-coupled UI tests for web applications by going beyond the Page Object Design Pattern into a more fine-grained approach I call ‘Logical entities to UI object mapping‘. I will show code in written Java 8 leveraging the Selenium and Selenide frameworks to show examples of the method described.

Layers of web app testing responsibility
Layers of web app testing responsibility

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provashell – testing shell scripts the easy way

In this post I will describe the provashell project, an Apache 2.0 licensed bash and shell Unit Testing library using annotations. The library is a self-contained script file with no dependencies that can be embedded or used easily in your project. Extra care has been taken to use POSIX shell features and the code has been tested in the popular shells bash, dash and zsh (latest versions the time of writing this article). I will add some detail on what drove me to do it, what it does, how it works and some examples. Continue reading “provashell – testing shell scripts the easy way”