Selenium Automation Best Practices

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I am reading Selenium beginner's Guide. In Best practices section author refers to Page Object Pattern.

• Moving Selenium methods into private methods to make it maintainable
• Seperate classes for each page, This example is clearly illustrated - Homepage.java, Chapter1.java, Chapter2.java. This is very good.
• I am going to try it out with different set of example with coding standards suggested for Java

Summarizing Coding Standards based on - Java Coding Standards Document

• Comment your methods and add enough information for other team members to understand
• Naming methods with full description and first letter not captitalized. Ex- openHomePage( ), openFirstPage( )
• Assigning member function visibility private, public, protected based on usage
• Declaring variables - searchKeyword, brandName, firstName (Hungarian Notation - hWindow, hMenuItems), Usage of _
• Last Important thing is naming constants, static variables in CAPS - MAX_LIMIT, CHECK_VALUE
• Always initialize static fields
• Declare local variables immediately before their use
• Prefix letter I for Interface  names

I would prefer online code formatter :). There might be some free tools available need to check.

Continuous Integration Server is something I need to learn :).....

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