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Key Design Patterns for Effective Test Automation
One of the key issues that I have seen newbies make while working with test automation is they focus a lot on the tool but there is little to no attention on the design patterns.
To be honest design patterns are an important part of any test automation strategy. It’s like a well-organized recipe book in a kitchen. Each recipe represents a design pattern, providing a tried-and-true method for preparing a dish (or solving a problem in your code).
It helps to ensure that your code is flexible, maintainable, consistent, and efficient.
This article discussed the five most used design patterns, there are certainly more but today we are going to discuss:
- Page Object Model (POM)
- Factory Pattern
- Singleton Pattern
- Command Pattern
- Decorator Pattern
I am working on more so will be sharing those soon too! Let’s dive into the articles next!
PAGE OBJECT MODEL (POM)
The Page Object Model (POM) is like organizing your test code into neat, manageable folders. Think of each web page in your application as a class, like a folder. Inside that folder, you’ve got variables (representing elements on the page) and…
