Selenium Web Test - Automation Framework - Best Practices

[Next Post for Selenium Based Test Automation Framework]

This post is based my question in stackoverflow site. These questions help us learn best practices while developing an automation framework.

Summarizing Discussion Points

• Page Object test design pattern is a good approach in building automation framework. Based on it only I have written example posts
• Don't use the Selenium IDE generated code as Automation Framework base
• Build a very good underlying framework architecture and refactor it as you keep updating the suite
• Learn Design patterns and Apply it wherever applicable
• 3 layer test automation framework is very good. I feel convinced with this approach.
• GUI Level Testing
• Methods Level Testing
• Database Checks

Posting below list of good reads on Test Automation

• Selenium - Page Object Pattern
• Selenium WebDriver: Page Object Pattern and PageFactory
• Verifying email configuration using Selenium
• ANT build for Selenium Java Project
• Selenium Grid I.O Configuration
• Selenium-ANT-TestNG (SAT) Framework
• Selenium Tutorial to set up a Selenium Grid
• Common Test Patterns and Reuse of Test Designs - Summarizes Test Data and Operations based on Application Type. Good read to arrive at Test Data, Test Scenarios, Edge Case Scenarios.
• Quality in the Test Automation Review Process and Design Review Template - Very Good Article on documenting and sharing Test Automation Framework Code, Architecture and Implmentation Details
• Test Automation Design Pattern  - Approach for building UI Automation Framework
• Test Harness Design Patterns -Summarizes passing data in Flat Files, Excel, XML
• Lightweight UI Test Automation with .NET - Good Article on WinForm Test Automation
• Silverlight UI Automation Testing using Prism 4.0
• UI Automation Verify (UIA Verify) Test Automation Framework
• .NET Based Test Automation Framework Available in Code Plex
• How to implement UI testing without shooting yourself in the foot
• Selenium RC Java Patterns: Watch this Space
• Testing a JavaEE database application
• Building a GUI test automation framework: Structuring the project
• Click on Dynamic Objects at Dynamic Positions in Selenium

Integration Test Principles - Notes from the post

• Configuration should be minimal (Pointing to a different Db to run a test)
• Test cases should be independent (Select and run few cases)
• Tests should be efficient
• The test suite should clean up after itself (Good to clear logs/data)

Please feel free to check my learnings for Developing Test Automation Framework using Selenium.

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