Familiarizing ourselves with common design patterns

Design patterns can be viewed as a solution template for addressing commonly occurring issues in software design. Once the underlying software design problem is analyzed and understood, these design patterns can be applied to common problems. Design patterns also help create a shared design language for the software development community. Test automation projects tend to be started in an isolated manner and later scraped due to scalability issues. In the next section, let us try to understand how design patterns help test automation achieve its goals.

Using design patterns in test automation

Test automation is as involved as any other coding undertaking and has its own set of design challenges. But to our rescue, some existing approaches can be applied to solve common design challenges in test automation. Test engineers and SDETs should always be on the lookout for opportunities to optimize test scripts by employing the best...