243: Creating Klassi Frameworks with Larry Goddard

Larry is also the proud father of three awesome kids Lee-Ann, Leland and Leshem.

• At the moment I'm a staunch advocate of WebDriver.io I recommend it to everybody that I talk to.
• One of the things with WebDriver.io that it gives you is the ability to work which shadow DOMs. And that Shadow Dom is a big thing with selenium and everybody else at the moment. I actually created two little functions that go a grab the main DOM than find the shadow DOM and then pull whatever id that you need from there. dominant and pull whatever I any from their hero or a kind of a worker. But with this latest release of WebDriver.io, there is a new feature so that you can now call your Shadow DOM directly.
• ResembleJs as a tool that does image comparison. It allows you to pick out an image and compare it and then take another image of that same page at a later date and compared to the previous one that you took. That's what it does in a nutshell. I use it for visual regression testing.
• For reporting, I like to use cucumber-html-reporter. What it does it grabs all the data and saves it as JSON but it also saves it as an HTML file with a nice graph on it. It separates all your functions, features, scenarios and all the steps. You could do a lot with it.
• What is one piece of advice I will give to people about test automation, Its a little saying that I heard a while back – “automation should only be used to enhance testing and not replace it".