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I have been hearing a lot about page object modelling? Why is it so important?

Can someone please outline me page object model?

I'm currently working as QE in webservices area

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You can find additional info in my answer to this post: sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/3798/… – Sam Woods Oct 25 '12 at 15:43
This gives a good insight on the topic: code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/PageObjects. Also there are quite a few articles on the topic online, so is there anything specific you are looking for or just a general idea of people's view? – Suchit Parikh Oct 25 '12 at 16:42

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Read this ( scroll down to the page objects section though the whole page us good ) and this for some background

Or from this page

Taking it back to basics, essentially there are three functions I see a page object pattern provides:

Ability to easily instantiate pages in a consistent manner

Ability to concisely describe elements on a page, keep it DRY by avoiding repetition of element identifiers (using the underlying driver’s API)

Ability to provide higher level methods that use the elements to perform user oriented functions.

and a tutorial here

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