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shammika dahanayaka
shammika dahanayaka

Reputation: 31

What is the differnce between page object model and page factory in selenium?

As it seems page object model and page factory is doing same thing. So i am confused. 

IpmObjectInitializer initialize = new IpmObjectInitializer(driver.getWebDriver());

// Initialize elements in BatchCreationPageFactory class

batchCreationPageFactory = initialize.getBatchCreationPageFactoryObj();

Upvotes: 0

Views: 14178

Answers (2)

Preeti Sharma
Preeti Sharma

Reputation: 1

Page Object Model (POM)

1.. POM is a Design pattern which segregates selenium code based on pages.

Ex: Create a separate java class for the Login page, one more class for Home Page etc.

2.. A Page Object Model is a way of representing an application in a test framework. For every ‘page’ in the application, you create a Page Object to reference the ‘page’.

Page Factory

1.. Advanced concept ( POM + new features )or

  1. Elements are identified using @FindBy or @FindBys Annotation

  2. Initialism all the elements declared in Point#1 at a time.

( in POM, initialization happens on the fly )

PageFactory.initElements(driver,this);

2.. A Page Factory is one way of implementing a Page Object Model. In order to support the Page Object pattern, WebDriver’s support library contains a factory class.

Upvotes: 4

Guy
Guy

Reputation: 50949

Page Object is a class that represents a web page and hold the functionality and members.

public class LogInPage
{
    private WebElement userName;
    private WebElement password;

    public LogInPage() {
    }

    public void locateElements() {
        userName = driver.findElement(By.id("userName"));
        password = driver.findElement(By.id("password"));
    }

    public void doLogIn() {
        userName.sendKeys("qwe");
        password.sendKeys("123");
    }
}

Page Factory is a way to initialize the web elements you want to interact with within the page object when you create an instance of it.

public class LogInPage
{
    @FindBy(id="userName")
    private WebElement userName;

    @FindBy(id="password")
    private WebElement password;

    public LogInPage() {
        PageFactory.initElements(driver, this); // initialize the members like driver.findElement()
    }

    public void doLogIn() {
        userName.sendKeys("qwe");
        password.sendKeys("123");
    }
}

Upvotes: 6

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