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Logical flow for Automating POM, PageFactory framework in selenium

In order to implement POM in we can adopt following project structure:

  1. Common function Init — which takes care of Browser launch
  2. Page objects — This defines the Page objects of a page
  3. Test pages — This Initializes PageFactory for each page and call Page object functions to execute them

 

Init Logic:

PageObject class logic:

Testclass to execute Page Objects:


In above example, we PageFactory Initiates the PageObject webelements by looking for “PageObject Constructor that takes WebDriver” as it’s argument (public SomePage(WebDriver driver)).

If a PageObject do not contains above constructor, we can’t execute PageObject methods.

Sometimes within a Page, we may need to test for webelements of another page. This can be accomplished to initialize the elements of this page as follow:

public BulkCardsMovementFromFilePage(WebDriver driver)
{
this.driver=driver;
PageFactory.initElements(driver, this);

SecondPage seconPageObject = new SecondPage(driver);
//Note, we still need to pass an instance of WebDriver to Initialize elements of second page
PageFactory.initElements(driver, secondPageObject);
….
}