Test Automation With Selenium Using Page Object Design

WebDriver Introduction
A different way of automating the browser.
.
Create a browser-specific driver to control the browser directly and have to do
this for each browser
. Object oriented API
. Doesn‘t need a real
browser
. No JavaScript limitations
. No need for a server

A Page
Object is a object oriented class that serves as an interface to a page of you
AUT(Application Under Test). If UI changes, test don‘t need to be change, only
the code within the page object need to be changed.

How does it
work?
. Each page is defined as it‘s own class.
. Actions (including
navigation) are representing as functions for a class
. Each function returns
a new Page object, signifying what page the actions stops on.
. Tests only
talk to the page objects
. Page objects only talk to the driver
. Elements
on the page are stored as variables for the page object
. Class inheritance
can be used to define functionality to a set of pages.

1. Define a
class for the Page Object model by creating a Python script with the name of the
page.
The Page Object model can be implemented by creating classes, defining
methods and properties, and only exposing the functionality from the application
page that needed it for testing.