Introduction
Developing a maintainable automation code is one of the keys to a successful test-automation project. Test-automation code needs to be treated as production code and similar standards and patterns should to be applied while developing this code.
While developing Selenium WebDriver tests, we can use the Page Object model pattern. This pattern helps in enhancing the tests, making them highly maintainable, reducing the code duplication, building a layer of abstraction, and hiding the inner implementation from tests.
By applying object-oriented development principles, we can develop a class that serves as an interface to a web page in the application, modeling its properties and behavior. This helps in creating a layer of separation between the test code and code specific to the page, by hiding the technical implementation such as locators used to identify elements on the page, layout, and so on. The Page Object design pattern provides tests for an interface where a test can operate...
