Assertion or Verification?

To “assert” or to “verify” is a decision that a tester has to take depending on the strategy followed for testing.  There is no point in checking the text on the page if the page itself has not loaded successfully. If you are not on the expected page, you may want to abort the test and look for a root cause and fix the issue promptly. Or, you may want to run through the test suite and list all the issues on the page and then fix them all together. Effectively, an “assert” will fail the test and abort the current test case, whereas a “verify” will fail the test and continue to run the test case.

However the best use is to group the commands logically by using “assert” first, followed by “verify”.

Below is an example

Command	Target	value
open	/login
assertTitle	Login
verifyText	//h1	Login

In the above example , first the “login” page is opened, and then “asserts” that correct page is loaded with title “Login”. Once confirmed, we can check the page has text “Login” in expected position