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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

By : UNMESH GUNDECHA
Book Image

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

By: UNMESH GUNDECHA

Overview of this book

Web technologies are becoming increasingly complex and there is a need to test your web applications against a vast number of browsers and platforms, so you need to build highly reliable and maintainable test automation. This book will help you test your web applications effectively and efficiently with Selenium WebDriver."Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook" is an incremental guide that will help you learn and use advanced features of Selenium WebDriver API in various situations for building reliable test automation. You will learn how to effectively use features of Selenium using simple and detailed examples. This book will also teach you best practices, design patterns, and how to extend Selenium."Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook" shows developers and testers who already use Selenium, how to go to the next step and build a highly maintainable and reliable test framework using advanced features of the tool.The book starts with tips on advanced location strategy and effective use of Selenium WebDriver API. Then it demonstrates the use of design patterns such as Data Driven Tests and PageFactory for building maintainable test automation. It also explains extending Selenium WebDriver API along with implementing custom tasks and setting up your own distributed environment to run tests in parallel.It concludes with tips on integrating Selenium WebDriver with other popular tools, testing mobile web applications, and capturing videos of test runs. This books provides examples in Java, C#, Ruby, and Python."Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook" will help you in building a highly robust and maintainable test automation framework from start to finish.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Testing can be very repetitive, not only because we must run the same test over and over again, but also because many of the tests are only slightly different. For example, we might want to run the same test with different test inputs or test conditions and verify that the actual output varies accordingly. Each of these tests would consist of the exact same steps; however, what differs is the test data.

We can use the data-driven approach to achieve this. The data-driven testing approach is a widely used methodology in software test automation.

We will use the BMI calculator application as an example to understand the data-driven testing approach. The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a measurement of body fat based on height and weight, which applies to both men and women between the ages of 18 and 65 years. BMI can be used to indicate whether you are overweight, obese, underweight, or normal. The following tables show the various BMI categories:

Category

BMI range

Underweight

Less...