When to Use Business Components?When you want to reuse a set of steps across multiple tests.
For example, in an e-commerce site, you could create "Product Search", "Add to Cart" business components that could be used in various workflows requiring you to add product to the shopping cart.
You When you want to modularize your tests for easy collaboration between the team.
For example, you may want to check whether an order placed from the web app has correctly been added to the database. DB developer could create a Business component that creates a DB connect and makes the appropriate SQL query for validations, while the Test Engineer would just include this component in his test.
Working When you are working across multiple technologies.
For example, an order is placed from a Web Application which is further send to SAP for fulfillment. The SAP team would create a business component for verifying whether an order has been created in SAP. This component would then be used by the Web team as part of their Order workflow. This promotes collaboration and efficient distribution of work.
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