This will give you an introduction to “Page Object Model” and its implementation in Selenium using java. Before starting with Page Object Model let’s first know what are design patterns. Design patterns. A Design pattern is a generic solution to a common software design/architecture problem. Implementation of these design patterns leads to inclusion of best practices and best solution, evolved over the time by others while working with similar problems. Page Object Model in Selenium A Page Object Model is a design pattern that can be implemented using selenium webdriver. It essentially models the pages/screen of the application as objects called Page Objects, all the functions that can be performed in the specific page are encapsulated in the page object of that screen. In this way any change made in the UI will only affect that screens page object class thus abstracting the changes from the test classes. Advantages of using Page Object Model Increases code reusability – code to work with events of a page is written only once and used in different test cases Improves code maintainability – any UI change leads to updating the code in page object classes only leaving the test classes unaffected Continue reading →