Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

Referencing static elements in methods

When defining locators in the page object classes, a static name is always given to the WebElement or MobileElement. This name should be referenced in the methods in the class that act on the element. Methods can either directly call a Selenium API method on a static element, or take a WebElement or MobileElement as a parameter.

Using the Gmail login page again as an example, the email and password fields would look like this:

// use of static WebElement name in methodpublic void login(String email,                  String password)                  throws Exception {    this.email.sendKeys(email); // static WebElement name    this.password.sendKeys(password); // static WebElement name    submit.click();}

// use of static WebElement name passed ...