Using the PageFactory class for exposing the elements on a page

To implement the Page Object model in tests, we need to create a Page Object class for each page that is being tested. For example, to test the BMI Calculator application, a BMI Calculator page class will be defined, which will expose the internals of the BMI Calculator page to the test, as shown in following diagram. This is done by using the PageFactory class of Selenium WebDriver API:

Getting ready

Before exposing the elements of a page, we need to do the following:

• Identify the locators that will be needed to find all the required elements from a page uniquely

• Define the structure of the package and classes for the page

How to do it...

Let's implement a Page Object test for the BMI Calculator page using the PageFactory class with the following steps:

1. Define and create a package for all the page objects from the application for logical grouping. For example, seleniumcookbook.tests.pageobjects is created to define all the page objects...