Everything you want to know about Page Object design pattern (Mikalai Alimenkou, Ukraine), part 2

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Live coding demonstrates TDD-driven generation of Page Objects and their methods, with a Yahoo example comparing treating widgets as reusable components versus keeping a monolithic page object. The talk explains PageFactory caching behavior, argues that properly typed elements and component libraries (html element, Serenity, EPAM) reduce duplication and improve test reliability, and warns that poor programming skills or overcomplicating POs can lead to huge, fragile page object classes.

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1. 0:00Page Object intro
2. 1:48Page Object structure
3. 4:36Splitting pages into widgets
4. 7:33Page Elements approaches
5. 11:17Page Elements classification
6. 16:09Encapsulating logic in elements
7. 22:11Page Object templates
8. 26:30Caching and element init
9. 30:02Ready element libraries
10. 37:24Page Object drawbacks
11. 40:25TDD-driven Page Objects

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