Automation Abstractions: Page Objects and Beyond

When you start writing automation for your projects, you quickly realize that you need to organize and design the code. You will write far more than “test” code; you also will write abstraction code because you want to make tests easier to read and maintain. But how do you design all this code? How do you organize and structure it? Should you use a domain specific language? Should you go keyword driven or use Gherkin? Should you use page objects with POJO or Factories? Do you create DOM level abstractions? Where do domain models fit in? Alan Richardson provides an overview of options available to you when modeling abstraction layers. Based on his experience with many approaches on real-world commercial projects, Alan helps you understand how to think about the modeling of abstraction layers. Illustrated with a number of code examples, Alan shows you a variety of approaches and discusses the pros and cons associated with each.