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Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices
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Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices

by Dima Kovalenko
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
270 pages
6h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 4. Data-driven Testing

 

"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all."

 
 --Charles Babbage

Test data is a crucial part of automated tests; the old truism garbage in, garbage out applies especially well in this case. Tests will feed some data into our Turing machine and compare the output with the expectations. In a manner of speaking, a perfect test is a little insane; it will keep doing the same things over and over while expecting a different result.

As automated test developers, our goal is to make the tests fulfill their destiny of endlessly repeating identical steps, forever. The only way to accomplish this goal is to have as much control as possible over every single piece of data our application consumes. ...

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ISBN: 9781783982707