This document provides four tips for web automation: (1) Learn locators to identify elements on web pages, (2) Know when to avoid locators due to asynchronous operations, (3) Understand how asynchronous operations work in your system to handle timing issues, and (4) Effectively handle data and configuration to simplify tests and make them more robust. The key message is that there are no universal best practices - the concepts must be applied to each individual system.

1. Four Crucial
Tips for Web
Automation

2. Jim Holmes
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@AJimholmes
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5. The Four
Tips

6. 0) Learn
Your
Locators

7. 1) Learn
When to
Avoid
Locators

8. 2) Learn How
Async
Works in
Your System

9. 3) Learn to
Handle Data
and
Configuration
Effectively

10. Automation
Best
Practices

11. There’s only
one:

12. There are
no best
practices!

13. Take today’s
concepts

14. Learn how to
apply in
!
YOUR
SYSTEMS!

15. 0) Locators

16. What’s a
DOM?

17. Locator Types
IDs
CSS
Xpath
Other Attribs

18. 1) Know
When to
AVOID
Locators

19. 2) Handling
Async
Situations

20. Page load
lifecycle

21. Along came
AJAX

22. And Jquery
and backbone
and…..

23. Explicit waits

24. Simplify Your
Tests via
Setup &
Teardown

25. Test Oracles

26. System
Configuration

27. Learn the
concepts

28. Learn how to
apply in
!
YOUR
SYSTEMS

29. Jim Holmes
jim@falafel.com
@AJimholmes
FrazzledDad.com