In this chapter, we are going to examine page objects and see how we can use them to keep our code both clean and maintainable. Remember that test code is just as important as production code, so we should strive to make sure that it is well written and easy to refactor.

If your test code is not high-quality, how are you ever going to be sure that your production code works as expected? In this chapter, we will:

• Introduce Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) and have a look at how we can apply it to page objects.
• Examine why we should keep our assertions separate from our page objects.
• Have a look at the Java PageFactory classes that are available in the Selenium Support package.
• Look at how we can build sensible, extensible page objects that do the hard work of driving your tests.
• Talk about how we can make a readable Domain-Specific Language (DSL) using page objects. We don't need Cucumber to write readable tests.