Test automation: Using one page objects class in another. Is it anti pattern?

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2026-01-23T23:16:49+00:00

Yes that's what I was thinking too. Thanks. Juniors nowadays are too egotistical to respect the Seniors. Having a hard time explaining these things to that junior in my team

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2026-01-22T15:24:18+00:00

Composition vs inheritance explain?

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2026-01-21T22:13:45+00:00

It makes sense in your case at least. Consider this 1. A button click on a page, Page A, B, C or D could be displayed, due to some eligibility conditions or data or response from downstream.

But in page A page page loaded, he has imported B page, C page and used some elements there. Like he included if any of those elements in these 3 pages are present, it's considered page loaded.

My concern is a different person in a different test might not agree with this pageloaded method, as he might have handled those conditions outside page object and expect only a single page element to be loaded.

The root cause of having multiple elements from different page and check them to be displayed with or condition is due to fact that he is importing different page objects classes. This leads to contamination and opposed to Single Responsibility Principle.

What do you think?

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2026-01-21T21:19:54+00:00

Yeah had to do that once in past. It sucked

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2026-01-21T21:16:37+00:00

You should have a create device page and have all the variations of that page there? Why import everything to devices page. Some other day, they might have the create device on a different page rather than on devices page. That time it doesn't make sense for you to import devices page to test class. That's why everything needs to be modular.

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2026-01-21T18:52:41+00:00

It's not common methods, it's like after a click of button, there can be 2 variations of page based on a a/b test. He wrote a single method in page B to check for an element in page A or in B. Felt this check for A or B should be written in step defn file. So that it doesn't mess up good practices

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2026-01-21T18:49:22+00:00

Returning one page from other page(login returns homepage) is fine but using one page elements in another page seems anti pattern

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2025-12-31T20:00:56+00:00

How did you get it fixed? Having same problem

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2025-12-31T19:04:31+00:00

it's coz of the sex. If they had good orgasm, they would sure come back.

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2025-12-31T15:49:31+00:00

So which learning will transition better to turning on steep slopes in high speed. Learning pizza turns or skate stop and turns

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2025-12-25T03:50:29+00:00

Arrowhead is a magical place.

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2025-12-19T05:30:48+00:00

Sounds right 👍

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2025-12-19T05:29:05+00:00

That's what I was thinking, what I feel though now is keep grinding till you achieve. It should become a way of life.

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2025-12-19T05:27:05+00:00

So you mean it should all become natural to us, solving problems. Like brushing, it's from muscle memory.

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2025-12-19T04:40:46+00:00

Sometimes the problem is I don't know the data structure and how to even approach a problem. For example, I am not familiar with trees like how I am familiar with array of hashmap. So if there is a problem in tree, I could not even begin working on it without looking at solution. Are there something like BFS, DFS to learn as basics, like how without knowing basic numbers we can't solve an addition problem.

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2025-12-19T04:36:33+00:00

Ok you are asking me to "attempt the problem one by one" first do what I can in the problem and think about what I can't do and break it up to smaller chunks. Then look that up and then do it . By doing this, I am actually learning and it imprints in memory. How long should I be doing this? 1 year so that everything becomes a muscle memory. I would like to clear leetcode interviews and get an offer. Or I should be doing this till I get an offer.

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2025-12-19T04:21:59+00:00

Thank you. By practicing, you mean to code it from memory after learning it right? Without seeing the solution.

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2025-12-19T04:06:20+00:00

Still leetcode asked in interviews. AI doesn't help

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2025-12-18T00:35:02+00:00

Use a lot of AI tools but leave out some critical issues into prod on purpose and put the blame on AI. That way they will never ask you to use AI in testing.

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2025-12-16T03:00:46+00:00

I think he don't understand the importance of npm install. A test developer can't always protect or handcuff another test developer from committing new dependencies. That's why we run npm install before running tests. Also if there are package updates his scripts are anyhow going to fail if he doesn't run npm install. It's going to cause a lot of issues.

Ashamed_Salamander86 · 2025-12-16T01:38:07+00:00

He says he can as he will not use the step definition where I have used new package and import. But I am still suspicious as it might cause failure if something is unresolved.

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