Actions to search item and number of methods

Question

I have questions about clean code. I'm writing a test in Java selenium page factory. I'm a beginner.

I have two "actions", input text into search field and click button search. Now the question is, how should I do it:

1. In page object class make 2 separate methods:
   1st: input text to search, and
   2nd: click button.
   In main class (test class) make one method which runs these two methods.

2. In main class (test class) make two separate methods which run each of this two methods (input text and click button).

3. In page object class make only one method where I input text into search and click search button. And later run this one method in the test class.

Which solution is right and/or the best?

Answer 1

As I understood the question, it is required to define the reusable methods and use those methods in different test cases based on the requirement.

Here I am writing the code for two individual methods to work with,...

public void inputKeys(WebElement we,String ip){
    we.sendKeys(ip);
}

The above code just type the string value referred by ip variable.

Next method to click on a button is below,...

public void clickOn(WebElement we){
    we.click();
}

Now lets write the main program...

public class Sample{

public WebDriver driver;
public WebElement tf,but;

//Here you have to include the above two helper methods.
public void inputKeys(WebElement we,String ip){
    we.sendKeys(ip);
}
public void clickOn(WebElement we){
    we.click();
}

@BeforeClass
public void befC(){
    driver=new FirefoxDriver();
    driver.get("url of web page");
    tf=driver.findElement(By.name("Name of the TextField"));
    but=driver.findElement(By.xpath("The xpath of button element"));
}
@Test
public void test1(){
    inputKeys(tf,"Hello");
    clickOn(but);
}
}

The helper methods we created can be used in any test case method we write.