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Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

You're reading from   Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing Build data-driven test frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, AppiumDriver, Java, and TestNG

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473576
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Building a Scalable Selenium Test Driver Class for Web and Mobile Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Selenium Framework Utility Classes 3. Best Practices for Building Selenium Page Object Classes 4. Defining WebDriver and AppiumDriver Page Object Elements 5. Building a JSON Data Provider 6. Developing Data-Driven Test Classes 7. Encapsulating Data in Data-Driven Testing 8. Designing a Selenium Grid 9. Third-Party Tools and Plugins 10. Working Selenium WebDriver Framework Samples

Encapsulation and using getter/setter methods to retrieve objects from the page object classes

The first Selenium page object class was created containing two getter and two setter methods. These methods, although not entirely object-oriented, are required to provide a way for the Selenium test classes to access a component inside the page object instance. This is a basic concept in Java called encapsulation. The data variables and objects in the class are hidden by making them private or protected, and only accessible outside the class using the getter methods, and so on.

As a general rule, we want to keep a separation between the page object and test classes. So, what happens if the user needs to access a button on the page to cancel some action or dialog from within the test class? They only have two choices: call the WebDriver class's findBy method and pass in a dynamic...

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