#34: Client Membership (Multiple User Sign in and out)

Use reusable helper functions for a repeated common set of test steps.

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This article is one of the “Selenium Training Workbook” series, a set of bite-sized exercises. While each exercise is independent, it may require knowledge and practices covered in previous episodes.

Learning Objectives

• Multiple users log in and out.

• Review: Extract to Function & Extract to Page refactoring

• Review: Automate transformed web controls (the previous episode)

Test Design

• The business user signs in

• Go to its business setting page, set to member access only

• The business user signs out

• An existing customer signs in

• Apply for the membership for one business

• The customers signs out

• The business user signs in (again)

• Find the application for the membership

• Approve it, e.g. setting the expiry date

• The business signs out

• The customer signs in (again)

• Verify his membership

Test Data (Login) :

Site URL: https://whenwise.agileway.net
Login (Business): tennis@biz.com
Login (Customer): james@client.com
Password: test01

Knowledge Point: Use reusable helper functions for repeated common set of test steps.

For this test case, there are at least 4 user sign-ins (two different accounts).

Log in as the customer:

    driver.find_element(:id, "email").send_keys("james@client.com")
    driver.find_element(:id, "password").send_keys("test01")
    driver.find_element(:id, "login-btn").click

Login as the business user:

    driver.find_element(:id, "email").send_keys("tennis@biz.com")
    driver.find_element(:id, "password").send_keys("test01")
    driver.find_element(:id, "login-btn").click

Also, at least three user sign-outs, the same regardless of account.

driver.find_element(:id, "avatar").click
sleep 1
driver.find_element(:id, "logout-link").click

Now imagine, with 7 segments of these in one test script. Not tidy, right?

A better way is to extract the above into functions.