What is the Page Object Pattern in Selenium WebDri

Question

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

[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".

Answer 2

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