Chapter 7. The Page Objects Pattern

	"There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
	--C. A. R. Hoare

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is not a new concept in computer science. It has been around since the early 1950s and has been integrated into almost every modern programming language. Selenium WebDriver is written using OOP and we have been interacting with individual objects this whole time though you might not have realized it. Even though OOP offers a lot of advantages for the code base, which we will discuss later in this chapter, a lot of tests written in Selenium do not take full advantage of it.

We are ready to take the principles and design patterns discussed throughout this book and create a fully functional Page Objects framework. To accomplish this task, we will be covering...