Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

Folder names and structures

As the framework starts to evolve, there needs to be some organization around the folder structure in the IDE, along with a naming convention. The IntelliJ IDE uses modules to organize the repo, and under those modules, users can create the folder structures. It is common to also separate the page object and utility classes from the test classes.

So, as an example, under the top-level folder src, create main/java/com/yourCo/page objects and test/java/com/yourCo/tests folders. From there, under each structure, users can create feature-based folders.

Also, to retain a completely independent set of libraries for the Selenium driver and utility classes, create a separate module called something like Selenium3 with ...