QA Automation testing

How to install WebdriverIO automation framework and run it. Instagram example Requirements: Macbook npm installed IDE

What is a page object? Why do we need it? Organize your code (easy to read, easy to understand) Avoid duplicates Duplicated code from the previous article:

The WDIO team did a really good job of explaining their config file. But here are another way of looking at it: Runner You will most likely run your code on local runner mode. Although, some companies prefer to pay for cloud services like Sauce Labs

How can I use wait until? Let's start with: How does it work? waitUntil is constantly checking if the returning condition is true. After curly brace you see 10000, it is timeout in milliseconds. Then you see a string which is just an error message to show if 10 seconds have gone but true was not returned. Example conclusion:

Let's start with: How does it work? The map() method creates a new array populated with the results of calling a provided function on every element in the calling array. This might look too smart and not clear. Let's just see an example:

Id selects simplest id tag. AKA id="main". Class  selects all elements with class="post-area post" - you are correct, you need to add dots instead of spaces if you use class

Let's see what does XPATH consist of: //*[@id = 'myArticle']/../../div[1]

Assertions Assertion - is a way of verification. We can verify that data exist on the page, url is the one we expect to have, and.... pretty much anything else. WairFor... as a way of assertion Let's start with making sure elements existence on the page. For this purpose, we don't even need to use any extra modules. We can simply use:

1. Cannot read property 'click' of undefined... 2. Can't call getText on element with selector #exampleLoginBtn because element wasn't found

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