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Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0

You're reading from   Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 Boost the performance and reliability of your automated checks by mastering Selenium WebDriver

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788299671
Length 376 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Creating a Fast Feedback Loop 2. Producing the Right Feedback When Failing FREE CHAPTER 3. Exceptions Are Actually Oracles 4. The Waiting Game 5. Working with Effective Page Objects 6. Utilizing the Advanced User Interactions API 7. JavaScript Execution with Selenium 8. Keeping It Real 9. Hooking Docker into Selenium 10. Selenium – the Future 11. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: Contributing to Selenium 1. Appendix B: Working with JUnit 2. Appendix C: Introduction to Appium

Separation of concerns with page objects

Our second issue is that, while we abstracted away our WebElement creation, we didn’t abstract away any of the heavy lifting performed by our test script. We are now using a page object, but we are still going to have lots of duplication in our code. Let’s illustrate this by looking at a script to perform a login and how we would do that using our new page objects.

Let's start with a basic login page object:

package com.masteringselenium.page_objects;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

public class LoginPage {

public static By usernameLocator = By.id("username");
public static By passwordLocator = By.id("password");
public static By loginButtonLocator = By.id("login");
}

Next, we need a test that uses this LoginPage object:

@Test
public void logInToTheWebsite...
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