Software Design Patterns in Test Automation

Software Design Patterns in Test Automation

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1. Objectives2. What are Design Patterns?3. Design Pattern and Design Principle - what's the difference?4. Principles KISS Don’t Repeat Yourself.5. Patterns Multi-layered test solution Facade Chaining Template Method

Table of Content

Objectives• Present the concepts of „design pattern” & „de-sign principle” • Show why these concepts are important• Describe chosen patterns & principles.• All presented patterns have examples in C# but can be used with most Object-Oriented Languages• Target Audience: Testers who are writing automated tests and want to dive deeper into programing world.

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• General reusable solution to a commonly occuring problem within given context• Object-Oriented Desgin Patterns typically show relationships between classes and objects without specifing theirs final application.• (a pattern) „describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same ay twice„- Christopher Alexander

Software Design Pattern

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• Software Design Principle - Set of Guidelines that helps to avoid bad design and unmaintainable code.• „Design principles are the desirable goals that one aims to achieve. Design patterns are tools one can use to realize those goals. ” – E Arimitage

Pattern vs Principle

Keep it simple stupid. (KISS)KISS

KISS – Example 8

9KISS – Example

Solution

Don’t Repeat yourself (DRY)

DRY

12DRY - Example

Solution

Time for Patterns

Multi Layered Test SolutionStrategy

Overview

Example

Pros & Cons• Low maintenance effort and time• Enhanced code reusability• Structured codebase which is easy to fix and extend• Improved communication• Complexity• Time invested during creation• Experience

FacadeFacade

20Facade – description

Facade provides an unified interface in subsystem. Defines a higher-level interface that makes the subsystem easier to use.

Facade – UML

Facade - Test Case

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Facade – Before

Facade –After

Facade – Front Facade Implementation

Pros & Cons

• Less time spent on writing new test cases • Easier maintenance.• Test is harder to debug if it fails in ‚unexpected’ way.• Test is unreadable – if treated as an Unit Test.

Methods Chaining

Methods Chaining- Example

Chaining – methods difference

Pros & Cons

Helps when writing testsClean Code & ReadabilityPerson can’t see what object is returnedChain breaks

Template Method

32Template Method– description

Define the skeleton of an algorithm in an operation, deferring some steps to subclasses. Template Method lets subclasses redefine certain steps of an algorithm without changing the algorithm's structure.

Template Method– UML

Template Method -Test Cases

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Template Method - Example

Template Method - Example

Pros & Cons• Avoiding God Class• Modularization• Quite hard to understand• To understand what going on in test ‚little digging’ is neccesary

SummaryDesign patterns are more like guidelinesPatterns can be bad if used in wrong con-textAnybody can use themDo not force patterns into your code!!!Anti-Patterns

Bibliographyhttp://dofactory.com/net/design-patternsHead First Design Patterns – O’Reily MediaDesign Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

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