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File: pom.md | Updated: 11/18/2025

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Introduction


Large test suites can be structured to optimize ease of authoring and maintenance. Page object models are one such approach to structure your test suite.

A page object represents a part of your web application. An e-commerce web application might have a home page, a listings page and a checkout page. Each of them can be represented by page object models.

Page objects simplify authoring by creating a higher-level API which suits your application and simplify maintenance by capturing element selectors in one place and create reusable code to avoid repetition.

Implementation


Page object models wrap over a Playwright Page .

  • Sync
  • Async

models/search.py

class SearchPage:    def __init__(self, page):        self.page = page        self.search_term_input = page.locator('[aria-label="Enter your search term"]')    def navigate(self):        self.page.goto("https://bing.com")    def search(self, text):        self.search_term_input.fill(text)        self.search_term_input.press("Enter")

models/search.py

class SearchPage:    def __init__(self, page):        self.page = page        self.search_term_input = page.locator('[aria-label="Enter your search term"]')    async def navigate(self):        await self.page.goto("https://bing.com")    async def search(self, text):        await self.search_term_input.fill(text)        await self.search_term_input.press("Enter")

Page objects can then be used inside a test.

  • Sync
  • Async

test_search.py

from models.search import SearchPage# in the testpage = browser.new_page()search_page = SearchPage(page)search_page.navigate()search_page.search("search query")

test_search.py

from models.search import SearchPage# in the testpage = await browser.new_page()search_page = SearchPage(page)await search_page.navigate()await search_page.search("search query")