TA Basics: How to use the helper files
When you just start with test automation, you most likely search and interact with elements within your `*_steps.rb` files (the files that contain the precondition, interaction and validation steps). So most likely across the steps, you have repeatedly located and interacted with the same elements a couple of times. And as long as your test suite is small, adjusting it only takes a small bit of time and it works, so who cares, right? But now imagine you have a 100 scenario's, 100+ (precondition, interaction and validation) steps. And in a bunch of them you've locate the same element. But because of a change in the website this button cannot be found anymore. Are you going to adjust this in every line in your code to fix? Your answer should be: "NO!". You could use nested steps , but this becomes really confusing really fast and is not a good practice. So let's have a look at a proper solution, the helper files. Structure We basically define four main layers i...