OOP for Test Automation — SDET / Automation Testing Roadmap
Applying object-oriented design specifically to building maintainable automation code
Steps in OOP for Test Automation
- Inheritance & Polymorphism — beginner · Sharing common setup/teardown logic across test classes without duplicating code
- Interfaces & Abstract Classes — beginner · Defining contracts that different page objects or driver implementations can follow
- Encapsulation — beginner · Hiding WebDriver details behind clean methods so tests read like plain English
- Design Patterns for Automation (Singleton, Factory, Builder) — beginner · Common patterns that show up repeatedly in real automation framework code
Part of
- SDET / Automation Testing roadmap — the full learning path