Directory Structure : Selenium Automation

if you are using selenium webdriver , to write automation tests for your javascript application , tracing the requirement , and writing functional tests for it , may end up getting a lot of tests, and each set of tests, may become very difficult to manage, because we have to write code for each ui interaction in each test.

soon you will find that managing test code is in itself a big task. soon you will start finding ways to modularize tests in selenium .

modularizing tests in selenium webdriver in javascript , involved organinizing your test code into reusable, maintainable and scalable components.

some of the common practices which are used to modularize are;

1. page object model - pom is a desing pattern that helsps to create an object repository for web ui elements.
2. test data management - keep your test data separate from your test scripts.
3. utility functions - for common actions across the whole ui lik , logging in , taking screenshots, or waiting for elements.
4. test suites - here we will write the code for tests.
5. configuration - config files to manage, the environment variables, global variables, and configuration, which are common across all the tests, for eg; base url.
6. logging and reporting - integrating loggign and reporting to keep track of test execution and results.