Page Objects: Keep It Simple and Better!

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Covers three concrete Page Object architectures for UI test automation—Static, Void and Fluent—implemented in Java with Selenide. Compares their pros and cons with code examples, highlights pitfalls in common approaches (including drawbacks of Yandex HTMLElements) and shows how simpler Page Object code can avoid problems; examples are portable to .NET, Python, etc.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:33Popular UI testing languages
3. 5:45Work experience
4. 6:07Page Objects benefits
5. 8:14Typed elements anti-pattern
6. 13:31KISS and 3 Page Object implementations
7. 16:00Static methods in Page Objects
8. 20:36Object methods in Page Objects
9. 23:09Fluent methods in Page Objects
10. 28:09Inheritance joke
11. 29:56SOLID fails for tests
12. 31:43Page Elements pattern
13. 36:08Constants anti-patterns
14. 37:35Page Objects best practices
15. 39:03Max Dorofeev thoughts

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