Question

I am working with a tester who is using Selenium in my latest project.

I was trying to get some information out of him as to how i needed to name my CSS classes applied to the dynamic elements on the page that he will be testing.

I think he is rather new to this himself so was going to put our findings here for comment:

• Testing classes to be used for
  dynamically generated content.
• Testing classes to be applied to HTML
  via jQuery in separate JS file. This
  avoids testing classes being present
  in the production environment as the
  JS file can be excluded prior to
  deployment.
• Testing classes are to be unique. To
  make classes unique there may be a
  need to create incremental classes in
  dynamically generated lists for
  example.
• Where test classes are applied purely
  for testing i.e. they apply no CSS
  formatting they will be prefixed with
  “test”.
• Testing classes should also be
  meaningful to the content they are
  targeting.

I would be greatful if there is anything that could look as though it may cause issues further down the line.

Answer 1

We have decioded on a combination of XPATH and using the classes that are already present.