General Framework Structure in Selenium

Test Automation Frameworks
What is Framework?

A Test automation framework is an integrated system that can have the rules, standards and guidelines of automation of a specific application.

This system integrates the generic libraries, test data sources, object details, configuration modules, reporting and logs.


General Framework Structure:

Advantages:
1) Robust, flexible and extensible and support test automation on diverse sets of web applications across domains.
2) User-friendly interface for creation and execution of test suites.
3) Re-usability of code.
4) Increases test coverage to enhance the quality and reliability of the end product.
5) Easy maintenance.
6)Automated HTML report generation and emailing of the same to all stake holders

Types of Test Automation Frameworks
Data Driven Testing Framework
Keyword Driven Testing Framework
Hybrid Testing Framework
Page Object Model
1)Page Object Model

Now a days, Page Object Model become very popular test automation framework in Selenium, where web application pages are represented as classes, and the all the web elements on the page are defined as variables on the class. All possible user interactions can be implemented as methods on the class.

Please find the link for Page Object Model in Selenium.

2) Data Driven Framework

If you observe several times while testing an application, it may be required to test the same functionality multiple times with the different set of input data, In that situation, if you hard-coded the test data to automation test scripts will not useful for reusability. So instead of hard-coded test data you have to store it in external files like excel, xml, properties file, database, csv.
So in order to test the application, you have to connect with external files and get the test data from them.