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<span style="font-size: 16px">Design</span>
 
<span style="font-size: 16px">Design</span>
 
=<span style="font-size: 16px">'''Context'''</span>=
 
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<span style="font-size: 16px">Use this pattern for efficient automation, but it is always useful!</span>
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<span style="font-size: 16px">Use this pattern for efficient automation, but it is almost always useful!</span>
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=<span style="font-size: 16px">'''Description'''</span>=
 
=<span style="font-size: 16px">'''Description'''</span>=
 
<span style="font-size: 16px">Use available know-how, tools and processes whenever possible. Reuse available data. Reuse scripts or libraries: you save lots of effort because you can just use testware that has already been tested and implemented.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 16px">'James Tony': Duplication is to be avoided! Copy and paste is (usually) the wrong thing to do – repeated cloning and tweaking of tests can lead to high technical debt and having to make the same change in many places when the requirements change</span>
 
<span style="font-size: 16px">Use available know-how, tools and processes whenever possible. Reuse available data. Reuse scripts or libraries: you save lots of effort because you can just use testware that has already been tested and implemented.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 16px">'James Tony': Duplication is to be avoided! Copy and paste is (usually) the wrong thing to do – repeated cloning and tweaking of tests can lead to high technical debt and having to make the same change in many places when the requirements change</span>
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* <span style="font-size: 16px">[[PREFER FAMILIAR SOLUTIONS]]: take advantage of what know-how is already available in your company</span>
 
* <span style="font-size: 16px">[[PREFER FAMILIAR SOLUTIONS]]: take advantage of what know-how is already available in your company</span>
 
* <span style="font-size: 16px">For ''[[REPETITIOUS TESTS]]'' implement [[ DATA-DRIVEN TESTING]]</span>
 
* <span style="font-size: 16px">For ''[[REPETITIOUS TESTS]]'' implement [[ DATA-DRIVEN TESTING]]</span>
* <span style="font-size: 16px">Look for common keywords and implement [[KEYWORD-DRIVEN TESTING]]</span>
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* <span style="font-size: 16px">Look for common keywords and implement [[KEYWORD-DRIVEN TESTING]]</span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px">Recommendations</span><br />
 
<span style="font-size: 16px">[[DESIGN FOR REUSE]]: Write scripts so that they can be reused and reuse them. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px">Create generalized data that can be reused and reuse it</span>
 
<span style="font-size: 16px">[[DESIGN FOR REUSE]]: Write scripts so that they can be reused and reuse them. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px">Create generalized data that can be reused and reuse it</span>
 
=<span style="font-size: 16px">'''Issues addressed by this pattern'''</span>=
 
=<span style="font-size: 16px">'''Issues addressed by this pattern'''</span>=
 
''<span style="font-size: 16px">[[ LOCALISED REGIMES]]</span>''<br /> ''<span style="font-size: 16px">[[REPETITIOUS TESTS]]</span>''<br /> ''<span style="font-size: 16px">[[TEST DATA LOSS]]</span>''
 
''<span style="font-size: 16px">[[ LOCALISED REGIMES]]</span>''<br /> ''<span style="font-size: 16px">[[REPETITIOUS TESTS]]</span>''<br /> ''<span style="font-size: 16px">[[TEST DATA LOSS]]</span>''
 
=<span style="font-size: 16px">'''Experiences'''</span>=
 
=<span style="font-size: 16px">'''Experiences'''</span>=
<span style="font-size: 16px">If you have used this pattern, please add your name and a brief story of how you used this pattern: your context, what you did, and how well it worked - or how it didn't work!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 14px">.................................................................................................................[[Main Page]] / Back to [[ Design Patterns]] / Back to [[Test Automation Patterns]]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px">If you have used this pattern and would like to contribute your experience to the wiki, please go to [[Feedback]] to submit your experience or comment.</span><br /> <br />  
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Pattern summary

Use available know-how, tools and processes whenever possible.

Category

Design

Context

Use this pattern for efficient automation, but it is almost always useful!

Description

Use available know-how, tools and processes whenever possible. Reuse available data. Reuse scripts or libraries: you save lots of effort because you can just use testware that has already been tested and implemented.

'James Tony': Duplication is to be avoided! Copy and paste is (usually) the wrong thing to do – repeated cloning and tweaking of tests can lead to high technical debt and having to make the same change in many places when the requirements change

Implementation

Some suggestions:

Recommendations
DESIGN FOR REUSE: Write scripts so that they can be reused and reuse them.
Create generalized data that can be reused and reuse it

Issues addressed by this pattern

LOCALISED REGIMES
REPETITIOUS TESTS
TEST DATA LOSS

Experiences

If you have used this pattern and would like to contribute your experience to the wiki, please go to Feedback to submit your experience or comment.

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