This was a presentation I gave in 10/2012 to the Spring Dallas User Group. It explains how to abstract page templates using configurable page instances in Geb. The code examples I presented are available at https://github.com/jhamit/geb-examples . Also, there will be additional updates to the examples as I work through them that will be explained on my blog (http://joshhamit.com).

1. Geb: Abstracting
Page Templates
Dallas, TX
October 2012
Discussion document – Strictly Confidential & Proprietary

2. Agenda …
This time we’ll cover how to leverage configurable page instances to abstract
page templates
• Quick Review of Geb: Save Time with Groovy Functional Testing
• Configurable Page Instances
• Code Examples
• Follow Up
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3. Review
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4. Review …
Last time we covered how a successful workflow for developing functional tests
• Introductions
• Interactive Shell
– Basic setup
– Syntax Overview
• Page Abstraction
– Overview
– Modules
– Functions
• Functional Testing
• Recap and Questions
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5. Configurable Page Instances
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6. Configurable Page Instances …
Web applications use templates. Our test scripts need to account for too.
Consider Twitter…
• The profile pages are based on templates
• So far we’ve only abstracted specific elements
• Do we write a test for every page?
Configurable Page Instances Let Us…
• Abstract our Page Models one level higher
• Save state about our Page Model
• This leads to behavior abstraction too!
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7. Code Examples
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8. Follow Up
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9. Follow Up …
Does anyone have questions? Below is some information in case you think of
some later.
Follow Along…
• Twitter: @josh_hamit
• Blog: http://joshhamit.com
• GitHub: https://github.com/jhamit/geb-examples
• SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/jhamit
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