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Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Dima Kovalenko
Book Image

Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices

By: Dima Kovalenko

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Page Objects pattern


The Page Objects pattern describes any web page in terms of a hierarchical Domain Specific Language (DSL). The application specific DSL helps to hide the page implementation; the test is no longer allowed to directly interact with a given page, but instead uses a framework of classes and methods to accomplish the same goal. This pattern abstracts the implementation details, such as element IDs, into a framework specifically designed for the application being tested.

Note

A DSL is a computer language that has been highly specialized for a specific application. It uses a general programming language such as Ruby or Java to implement classes and methods, which specifically apply to the application at hand.

Advantages of the Page Objects pattern

There are many advantages of using this pattern of test development; let's take a look at a handful:

  • DSL framework: After implementing the Page Objects pattern, we end up with a framework that describes the application from business...