Group

Overview

The Group class is a specialized Element that represents a collection of related elements within a web page. It is specifically needed for the Page Component Object Model (PCOM), providing a higher-level abstraction for organizing and interacting with groups of elements. This offers additional benefits over the base Element class, making it easier to manage and interact with complex UI components as cohesive units.


Core Benefits & Rules

  1. Encapsulation Elements:

    • The Group class allows you to define and encapsulate all the web elements of a Group as attributes (known as Page Component Object Model). Each element is represented as an instance of an Element class or similar, making it easy to interact with them directly.

  2. Element Locating Context Modification:

    • The Group class efficiently searches for element locators within its own context, instead of entire driver object. This enhances performance and minimizes unexpected behavior.

  3. Class-Based Usage:

    • Unlike Element objects, which can be used as attributes, Group objects should be defined as classes. This approach promotes better code organization and reusability.

  4. Initialization of Elements:

    • During the instantiation of a Group object, all defined attributes with instance of Element are automatically initialized. This ensures that elements are ready for interaction as soon as the Group object is created. Logic same as for Page class


This section covers features and behaviour of Group class detail: