Lesson 18 - PHP Testing - Acceptance tests of commercial applications I
In the previous lesson, PHP Testing - Useful AcceptanceTester class extensions, we showed how to extend the
AcceptanceTester class of the Codeception framework. So we know how
to use our own actions to test web applications with Selenium and even directly
call native functions of the Selenium core. In today's PHP tutorial, we're going
to look at a few methods I've picked for you from real commercial applications,
mainly from the ICT.social's system. They contain interesting techniques for
clicking on various elements, searching items in tables, controlling the TinyMCE
WYSIWYG editor, filling in a payment gateway form (by bypassing several robot
protections) and more. I'm sure, it'll serve you as a good inspiration and save
you a lot of time, because to create them and make them work properly took quite
a long time 
Preface to waiting
To begin with, I'd like to add, that the tests listed here use the
AcceptanceTester extensions which we showed in the previous lesson,
and the sleep() action we showed earlier in the course. And
finally, since we usually have to wait for a while after displaying dialogs or
after pages load, the tests use utility methods ending with
AndWait(), which trigger the standard action and also wait a while
by using sleep(). Their implementation can look, for example, like
this:
public function openAndWait($page) { $this->amOnPage($page); $this->sleep(self::SLEEP_TIME); }
It's better to set the sleep time with a constant so it can be modified easily, see
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