Using previous written code?

shed head

Howdy, learning the basics of Java

Can anybody tell me what i should read up on to get a quick idea of using code for automation purposes, for instance:

I write code/test script to login to a website => this logs me in and gets me to say a home page => on the home page i want to add criteria into fields, all is well.

However, this would be a different test script, so to proceed on i want to reuse the last script code for logging in. Is this extends class?

Please point me in the direction of reading material.

Apologies if this is a stupid question!

iFergal

Try creating an object of your first class in your second class.

firstClassName objectName = new firstClassName();

Replace firstClassName with the name of the class with the login code and add arguments to the parameters if your constructor has any. And to use the methods from that class just type as an example - firstClassName.methodName.

GreeBo

Have you looked into using something like Cucumber/web driver for automated testing?

Excellent for checking the behaviour of your site, rather than just running code.

You can build up scripts to do anything, and then reuse them as you want.
e.g
write some code that checks that login works successfully
write more code to check the home page works, this would resue the login code.

etc, etc