improving_the_old_tests.md

How to improve the old acceptance tests

#TBD

• The old tests were not written, they were recorded.

  • The output of the recorder was not always. For example, the recorder creates this:

     $browser.find_element(:xpath, ".//div[@id='wrapper-content']/ul/li[10]").click
    

    When this could have created this instead:

    $browser.find_element(:css, "ul.propertyTabsList li[groupname='service']").click
    
    

    These expressions accomplish the same thing. Which has the more obvious intent?

• The old tests were written in a very limited language (Selenese)

  • It did not allow subroutines or macros
  • It had only limited support for comments

• The old tests were converted from Selenese using an automated converter. *