Selenium Automation Introduction

Selenium Automation Introduction

• Selenium is a popular open source test automation tool to test web applications.

• It doesn't inherently comes with a feature to manage object information. Generating code for automation can result in duplicate code as functionalities could be common across scenarios of an application.

• Challenge occurs as the code can undergo change because object information can change with changing UI with different test releases.

• A Page Object simply models these as objects within the test code. This reduces the amount of duplicated code and means that if the UI changes, the fix need only be applied in one place.

• It's simplest to think of the methods on a Page Object as offering the "services" that a page offers rather than exposing the details and mechanics of the page