Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

Using the PageFactory class for exposing elements from a page

For implementing the Page Object model in tests, we need to map and create a Page Object class for each page being tested. For example, to test the BMI Calculator application, a BMI Calculator page class will be defined, which will expose the internals of the BMI Calculator page to the test, as shown in following diagram. This is done by using the PageFactory class of Selenium WebDriver API.

Getting ready

Before exposing the elements of a page, we need to do the following:

• Identify locators that will be needed to locate the elements uniquely
• Define the structure of the package and classes ...