BDD in Action

Chapter 8. Automating acceptance criteria for the UI layer

This chapter covers

• Why and when you should write automated UI tests
• Using Selenium WebDriver for web tests
• Finding and interacting with page elements in your tests
• Using the Page Objects pattern to make your tests cleaner
• Libraries that extend Selenium WebDriver

In the previous chapter, you learned how using a layered approach to automated acceptance testing helps make your tests clearer, more robust, and more maintainable. We discussed the three broad layers used in well-designed automated acceptance tests: the Business Rules layer, the Business Flow layer, and the Technical layer. In the following few chapters, we’ll focus on approaches and tools that can be used to implement ...