[Wtr-general] Best practices for structuring GUI models?

[Chris McMahon]

In other words, details like
> the form to send a card having the following inputs:
>
> - Text field with name "to[0]"
> - Text field with name "to_email[0]"
> - Text field with name "from"
> - Text field with name "from_email"
> ...
> - Submit button with name "preview"
>
> don't belong in high-level test code.
>
> But where do they belong?


I'm going plug (yes, again!) Kevin Lawrence's article:
http://www.developertesting.com/archives/month200508/20050824-Grow-your-harness.html

Read it, understand it, then read it again.   Then write us back.  :)

For myself, I set out writing a purely procedural script.  After a while
(50-80 lines or so) I've probably got several different code areas that
should really be in their own methods.  I probably have some code
duplication I can extract into methods.  After another 50 lines or so, I
might need to put my methods in a lib and require them from a controller
script.

I don't do much OO, it's usually overkill for the things I need to do.  I
treat methods as if they were subroutines, which generally gets me where I
need to go.
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