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Synapse QA

One of the biggest reasons UI tests break often is the use of unstable element locators. In this session, I’ll discuss strategies to write more stable element locators, introduce UI-licious - a low-code testing tool - and do exercises to show you how to write stable semantic tests with UI-licious to test user journeys, not HTML.

## Outline

1.  What makes automated UI tests flaky?
2.  Strategies for writing more stable element locators
3.  What is UI-licious? : Test user journeys, not HTML Philosophy
4.  Hello world with UI-licious: We’ll do a short exercise to login to GitHub and cover the basic commands to navigate, fill input fields,
5.  What about icon buttons and images? : We’ll do a short exercise to test icon buttons and images and explain how UI-licious works to target elements based on accessibility attributes.
6.  What about similar elements?
7.  Hinting using I.see: We’ll do a short exercise to explore using the I.see command to hint at the element targeting algorithm.
8.  Scoping using UI.context: We’ll do a short exercise to use UI.context to set the search scope for the element targeting algorithm.
9.  Using Page Object Model in UI-licious: Page Object Model is a good way to manage the complexity of the codebase for a UI test project by creating reusable functions that represent the state and possible interactions with a UI component.
10. We’ll do a short exercise to create a page object model to test a larger website.
11. Fun and Games: Testing 1 to 100 game with UI-licious: We’ll do a short exercise to write an automation script to play a game of clicking numbers randomly positioned in a grid from 1 to 100.
12. Q\&A: Open to any questions from the audience.
