Enhanced Test Automation with WebdriverIO

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The Time-Traveler’s Dilemma – State-Driven End to End User Journeys

This chapter addresses a different but common type of test automation – navigating through a survey, page by page, to reach a common endpoint. The challenge here is that decisions made by a user along the way can change the order of the pages displayed downstream – that’s if they appear at all. In this case, we need a fluid user journey that can take many branches to get to a common endpoint, as well as report if a path ended with an error page. It is inefficient to try to create an expanding path of pages for end-to-end automation. The amount of if/then branches or select/case options would be infinite and complex. To solve this, we will explore ways to identify each page ...