Glossary - amauran/project-giskard GitHub Wiki

Proof of concept (POC or PoC)

• also known as proof of principle, is a realization of a certain method or idea in order to demonstrate its feasibility.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_concept

Agile

• a way of working https://agilemanifesto.org/

locator vs. selector in Robot Framework manuals and stuff

• both of these seem to be used when talking about how to point to a web element (with paths made with CSS or XPath)
• personally I've come to think of it like this
  • selectors are the bits that make up the locator --> like id selectors, class selectors, attribute selectors, etc.
  • locator is the full path to the element or elements --> for example //tbody/tr/td[@class="product-name"] (XPath)
• this just works better for my mind, so I don't get confused all the time :)

DOM (Document Object Model)

• a DOM tree is a tree structure whose nodes represent an HTML or XML document's contents
• to put it a bit more simply, what is in/before/after/next to/etc. which element
• the selectors/locators are what tell the test robot which 'branch' to go to, sort of :)

headless testing

• test is run without a GUI

visibility of an element/node on a web page

• an element or node is visible when it exists in the DOM, not only when it's visible on the screen
• pay attention to what is visually visible vs. what is logically visible
  • some elements might not be visually on the screen but can be found because they already exist in the DOM
  • some element locators are not logically visible until the element is visually visible (like some popup menu locators)