在Selenium C＃中重用Page对象中的属性

Question

I am considering automated testing using Selenium and C#

I am using page object pattern and want to reuse element locator properties. Let me explain with an example:

public class AdminSection
    {
        [FindsBy(How = How.Id, Using = "**Admincity**")]
        public IWebElement City{ get; set; }
    }

public class UserSection
    {
        [FindsBy(How = How.Id, Using = "**usercity**")]
        public IWebElement City{ get; set; }
    }

public class MyPage
    {
//Section could be either admin or User based on the page        
ISection = AdminSection OR UserSection;
    }

Here I have a page where I have a "section", I want to reuse properties like name, city, address,etc. However different pages have different element ids. Is there a way to reuse the properties Name & City with different element locators at runtime? use some abstraction?

I want to avoid the duplication I did above by creating two separate classes? I cannot use FindBy XPath as the XPath address is not the same on both pages, plus it will be brittle.

Thanks, Manoj

Answer 1

I would suggest that you don't do this. Treat each page separately even if they have some/all of the same locators. If pages do have the same locators it's probably a coincidence. At some point, it's likely that one of the pages will change which will force you to update locators for only that page. When you've shared them, you'll then have to split everything or things will get even more complicated.

You'll likely spend way more time trying to figure out a way to share them and write them in a such a way that they work on all pages than you would if you just copy/paste the ones that are the same in separate page objects.

Answer 2

Manoj - Thanks for answering the questions. Based on what you are saying, I might create it this way. It sounds like a SPA where it is a single page application? I would probably still create a different page object class for Admin and User and call each accordingly.

Then you can build out your specflow steps calling the page and method.

example:

    adminPage

    [FindsBy(How = How.Id, Using = "City")]
    private readonly IWebElement _adminCity = null;

    //methods
    public void TypeAdminCity(string value)
    {
        browser.Type(_adminCity, value);
    }

    UserPage

    [FindsBy(How = How.Id, Using = "userCity")]
    private readonly IWebElement _userCity = null;

    //methods
    public void TypeUserCity(string value)
    {
        browser.Type(_userCity, value);
    }