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Page Object Model design pattern

Page Object Model design pattern

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Page Object Model design pattern

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- [Instructor] For web applications, you need framework classes that interact with the pages of the system. The most popular design pattern for creating these classes is the page object model. This model recommends creating a separate class for each page of your application. Within a given class resides the elements of that page as well as methods for interacting with those elements. Let's take this login page for example, using the page object model, you'd create a login page class, that includes web elements and methods to enter the username, enter the password, and click the login button. Your test can then call these methods to perform actions on the page, keeping the test code focused on validating behavior rather than interacting with the UI elements directly. The page object model design pattern promotes reusability, and reduces code duplication. It also increases the maintainability of the code base because if a webpage is structured changes, you only need to update the…

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