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Introduction to Selenium

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Sub Pages are Pages, Too!

12:36 with Craig Dennis and Nathan Menge

The structure of a page is called Page Objects, but the classes you create don’t need to be entire pages, they can be sub-pages as well. In this video we will show you how that works.

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My subpage Object

class Invitee {
    constructor(element) {
        this.element = element;
        this.locators = {
            editButton: By.css('button:first-of-type'),
            editNameField: By.css('input[type="text"]'),
            removeButton: By.css('button:last-child'),
            confirmedCheckbox: By.css('input[type="checkbox"]')

        }
    }

    changeName(name) {
        const button = this.element
            .findElement(this.locators.editButton);
        button.click();
        const textField = this.element.findElement(this.locators.editNameField);
        textField.clear();
        textField.sendKeys(name);
        button.click();
    }
// ...

Usage

homePage
    .findInviteeByName("Jennifer Nordell")
    .changeName("Craig Dennis");

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    All of them have very similar properties and functionality. 0:00
    Now, we could write methods on our main page object, but that would require us to 0:02
    continually pass the name of the invitee to each of our new methods. 0:07
    There's probably a better API that we could design. 0:10
    It's important to remember that just like how you take your time to 0:14
    design a software, you should also do the same with your automation and test code. 0:17
    You should always follow best practices and create clean, understandable APIs. 0:21
    You want other people to be able to not only read your code, but 0:26
    also being encourage to reuse it. 0:29

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