Martin Fowler recently added a bliki entry for the Page Object pattern. It’s a good writeup - if you haven’t read it I recommend doing so now. Go ahead. I’ll wait. The entry sparked a discussion on an internal ThoughtWorks mailing list as to whether Page Objects should include assertions or not. In fact Martin mentions this difference of opinion in the bliki entry itself. I fell on the side of favoring page objects with assertions baked in but couldn’t come up with a compelling reason...
