Automated, browser-based testing is a key element of web application development, benefiting both simple and complex applications. Writing effective tests for browser-based apps can be a complex, tedious and often repetitive task. In this post, I will be discussing a general approach to write meaningful, loosely-coupled UI tests for web applications by going beyond the Page Object Design Pattern into a more fine-grained approach I call ‘Logical entities to UI object mapping‘. I will show code in written Java 8 leveraging the Selenium and Selenide frameworks to show examples of the method described.
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