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Hands-On Automation Testing with Java for Beginners

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Hands-On Automation Testing with Java for Beginners

Overview of this book

Java is one of the most commonly-used software languages by programmers and developers. Are you from a non-technical background and looking to master Java for your automation needs? Then Hands-On Automation Testing with Java for Beginners is for you. This book provides you with efficient techniques to effectively handle Java-related automation projects. You will learn how to handle strings and their functions in Java. As you make your way through the book, you will get to grips with classes and objects, along with their uses. In the concluding chapters, you will learn about the importance of inheritance and exceptions with practical examples. By the end of this book, you will have gained comprehensive knowledge of Java.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Packages


When scripts are written for each Java class, there is a pre-populated line that is present automatically. It is package coreJava. Since we have created a package in Java and placed all the Java classes into that coreJava package, we see it as package coreJava.

Packages are nothing but a set of classes and interfaces. For example, Java comes with a few built-in packages, such as java.length; if we import this package, only then can we access a basic fundamental method, such as public static void main, integer, or array. All these classes come from this java.lang package. It is important to define the package name, because without it, we cannot access the classes present inside the package. This is because java.lang is a default package and it comes within the Java compiler itself.

We have another package as well, java.util. We used this package when we worked on collections; we imported a java.util package. In order to work on ArrayList, this class is present in the java.util package...