scala selenium dsl page object

Question

I am using the Selenium dsl and would like to use a Page object. Currently however it seems I have to define the page object inside the test class. The reason I would want a page object is to share common features between tests so this seems a bit pointless... Has anyone been using the page object model with Selenium DSL? What is the idea behind defining the page object in the same class? How come I get a compiler error if I define the page object outside of the test class. Am I doing something wrong?

The compiler error I get is:

Expected MySpec.this.type#Page, actual: MyPage

Answer 1

You can define the class outside of the test class like this:

class TwitterPage {
  val url = "http://twitter.com"
}

Then, use it inside the test by mixing in the Page trait:

val page = new TwitterPage with Page
go to page
title should be ("Welcome to Twitter")

This compiled and worked just fine for me.