What is the Page Object Pattern in Selenium WebDriver? [closed]

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What is page object pattern in Selenium WebDriver?

What is the use of it and how can we use this in Selenium WebDriver?

Example will be appreciated.

Answer 1

The documentation has already covered this. If you have any specific questions, feel free to edit your main post.

Official:

• Page Objects and PageFactory on Selenuim Wiki.
• Page Object Design Pattern on Selenium official site.

Unofficial: Do a Google search, you will get a lot info on this.

• Page Object Pattern
• Page Objects in Selenium 2.0
• Selenium 2/WebDriver Quick Tips: Page Object Navigation Strategies
• PageObject by Martin Fowler

Answer 2

[Edited to respond to the reply below. And thanks, I'll do better.]

The purpose of the page object pattern is to completely encapsulate the testing interface to the web page. This follows the time-honored practice of data hiding.

Here's the Selenium article about the page object.

And here's my post "Keep Your Page Objects DRY".