- Maintenance
- Readability of scripts
- Reduced or eliminated duplication
- Reusability
Some Advantages :
- Separation between test code and locators
- Class acts as an interface to actual page of application
- You can use methods of page object whenever you want to interact with GUI
Location:
‘org.openqa.selenium’ -----> org.openqa.selenium.support.PageFactory
@FindyBy : You can either use this annotation by specifying both "how" and "using" or by specifying one of the location strategies (eg: "id") with an appropriate value to use.
@CacheLookup : annotation is being used to eliminate the searching of the web element every time an action is performed
