Introduction

Extensive test suites can be organized to enhance the ease of creation and upkeep. Page object models serve as one method to organize your test suite.

A page object signifies a component of your web application. For instance, an e-commerce web application may include a home page, a listings page, and a checkout page. Each of these can be represented through page object models.

Page objects facilitate the authoring process by providing a higher-level API tailored to your application, and they streamline maintenance by consolidating element selectors in a single location, thereby enabling the creation of reusable code to prevent redundancy.

Implementation

We will develop a helper class named PlaywrightDevPage to encapsulate the common operations performed on the playwright.dev page. Internally, this class will utilize the page object.

				
					// code snippet:
import { expect, type Locator, type Page } from '@playwright/test';

export class PlaywrightDevPage {
  readonly page: Page;
  readonly getStartedLink: Locator;
  readonly gettingStartedHeader: Locator;
  readonly pomLink: Locator;
  readonly tocList: Locator;

  constructor(page: Page) {
    this.page = page;
    this.getStartedLink = page.locator('a', { hasText: 'Get started' });
    this.gettingStartedHeader = page.locator('h1', { hasText: 'Installation' });
    this.pomLink = page.locator('li', {
      hasText: 'Guides',
    }).locator('a', {
      hasText: 'Page Object Model',
    });
    this.tocList = page.locator('article div.markdown ul > li > a');
  }

  async goto() {
    await this.page.goto('https://playwright.dev');
  }

  async getStarted() {
    await this.getStartedLink.first().click();
    await expect(this.gettingStartedHeader).toBeVisible();
  }

  async pageObjectModel() {
    await this.getStarted();
    await this.pomLink.click();
  }
}

Now we can use the PlaywrightDevPage class in our tests.

				
					// code snippet:
import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test';
import { PlaywrightDevPage } from './playwright-dev-page';

test('getting started should contain table of contents', async ({ page }) => {
  const playwrightDev = new PlaywrightDevPage(page);
  await playwrightDev.goto();
  await playwrightDev.getStarted();
  await expect(playwrightDev.tocList).toHaveText([
    `How to install Playwright`,
    `What's Installed`,
    `How to run the example test`,
    `How to open the HTML test report`,
    `Write tests using web first assertions, page fixtures and locators`,
    `Run single test, multiple tests, headed mode`,
    `Generate tests with Codegen`,
    `See a trace of your tests`
  ]);
});

test('should show Page Object Model article', async ({ page }) => {
  const playwrightDev = new PlaywrightDevPage(page);
  await playwrightDev.goto();
  await playwrightDev.pageObjectModel();
  await expect(page.locator('article')).toContainText('Page Object Model is a common pattern');
});