UI Automation: Keeping Pace with Product Evolution

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Examines how UI automation breaks as web apps change (e.g., jQuery→Angular rewrites, applet→web migrations, web→mobile extensions) and identifies recurrent change patterns. Demonstrates, with live examples, techniques for structuring automation code and frameworks so tests require minimal updates when the underlying UI or framework evolves.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:11UI Automation Success: Keeping Pace with Product Evolution
3. 8:42Time needed depends on effort/people • Automation tasks and effort -Creation (manual and machine) -Execution (machine) -Reporting (machine)
4. 12:28Maximize ability to contribute - Version Control • Use non binary files. eg. CSV instead of Excel -Smaller, role specific files
5. 35:18Expresses business intent • Agnostic of - web application itself -Testing tool - interaction code
6. 43:08Central repository of all elements in the automation code
7. 43:19Demo of working application and automation code

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