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Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

You're reading from   Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing Build data-driven test frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, AppiumDriver, Java, and TestNG

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473576
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Building a Scalable Selenium Test Driver Class for Web and Mobile Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Selenium Framework Utility Classes 3. Best Practices for Building Selenium Page Object Classes 4. Defining WebDriver and AppiumDriver Page Object Elements 5. Building a JSON Data Provider 6. Developing Data-Driven Test Classes 7. Encapsulating Data in Data-Driven Testing 8. Designing a Selenium Grid 9. Third-Party Tools and Plugins 10. Working Selenium WebDriver Framework Samples

Designing and building the abstract base classes for the AUT

When designing the Selenium page object classes, the first step is to create an abstract base class that will store all the methods, locators, and properties that are common to all the pages in the application under test. It will also store all the abstract methods that the base class wants to enforce on each subclass derived from it. When a subclass is created that extends this base class, it will inherit all these object components.

This class will also initialize all the page objects included in it, as well as in each subclass, by calling the WebDriver page factory class in its constructor. In Java, abstract classes cannot be instantiated, but they can be subclassed.

The abstract class

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