Selenium wrapper using other open source applications
But what if someone took the time to develop a Selenium wrapper using other open source applications in such a way that when implemented, allows for engineers to significantly speed up the entire CI/CD process?
That’s exactly what we did.
For the past several years, Beta Breakers has been tasked with automation projects from clients in the fields of E-Commerce, Healthcare, Gaming, and Streaming. Each new project brought its own set of challenges that basic Selenium could not address. In that time, we have been building and refining a framework for web and mobile testing that combines the automation drivers of Selenium with a convenient, configurable, tree-based way of handling pages and elements. This tree-based approach contrasts the industry standard page-object model by making it much easier to specify elements, specify pages, and maintain these values in the actual codebase, which in turn significantly ramps up test development and maintenance time.
Our automation suites are built in the form of a templated Maven project for rapid development that can be integrated into a development team’s CI/CD pipeline which provides them with instantaneous feedback. Furthermore, this framework incorporates Cucumber and its plain language parser, Gherkin, which allows our front-end test cases to clearly describe expected user behaviors in plain English. Accordingly, we can create clearly described test results in the form of Cucumber reports.
The bottom line is that this new Selenium wrapper allows our software engineers to better harness the power of Selenium in such a way that makes us two to three times more productive than anyone else in the automation industry.