Get a Teacher Relocation Payment - 3. Introduce PageObject via SitePrism for Testing
Date: 2023-06-09
Status
Rejected
Context
This application consists on a high number of sequential questions and answers. The current implementation is making the tests a bit difficult to read and maintain.
We would like to clearly express the steps that the user is taking like:
- The user landed on the gender page
- The user transitioned to the contract detail page
- The user filled in his email address
While we can do that with the current implementation, we would need to rely on modules, shared steps, and many other things that are not really necessary.
As a side note, page objects are used across Dfe. These are some of the projects:
- DFE-Digital/publish-teacher-training
- DFE-Digital/early-careers-framework
- DFE-Digital/early-years-foundation-recovery
- DFE-Digital/npq-registration
- DFE-Digital/register-trainee-teachers
- DFE-Digital/apply-for-qualified-teacher-status
- DFE-Digital/get-help-with-tech
Decision
As described on this PR comment, we explored the testing guidelines for
apply-for-teacher-training and it looked good: simple, easy to read and
maintain. There is no big benefit of introducing a new library (Site Prism)
that needs to be learnt by new developers.
We have decided to stick to what apply-for-teacher-training is doing and use this opportunity to extend this practice to new projects.