Selenium Workbook #35: Client Makes Booking

Courage to take on the core business scenario, on the first day.

This article is one of the “Web Test Automation Workbook” series (the complete training course will be on my Substack Newsletter), a set of bite-sized exercises (typically 15–20 mins). A practical and satisfying way to learn web test automation with Selenium WebDriver.

Learning Objectives

• Using text() in XPath
• Review:
  - visit a specific URL directly
  - waits
  - variable in string, e.g. "Hello #{name}"

You don’t need to perform refactoring in this exercise yet, we will do that in Ex#37.

Tip: Work on the main business scenario on your first day

WhenWise is a service booking app. This “Client Makes Booking” surely is the one of main business scenarios. Our series is a training course for total beginners, the order does not matter (the first episode using WhenWise is #20: Login tests). When a QA Engineer joins a new team, I recommend getting one simple core business scenario, like this one, implemented.