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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Second Edition

By : UNMESH GUNDECHA
5 (1)
Book Image

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Second Edition

5 (1)
By: UNMESH GUNDECHA

Overview of this book

This book is an incremental guide that will help you learn and use the advanced features of the Selenium toolset including the WebDriver API in various situations to build a reliable test automation. You start off by setting up the test development environment and gain tips on the advanced locater strategy and the effective use of the Selenium WebDriver API. After that, the use of design patterns such as data - driven tests and PageFactory are demonstrated. You will then be familiarised with extending Selenium WebDriver API by implementing custom tasks and setting up your own distributed environment to run tests in parallel for cross-browser testing. Finally, we give you some tips on integrating Selenium WebDriver with other popular tools and testing mobile applications. By the end of this book, you will have learned enough to solve complex testing issues on your own.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Using Ant for Selenium WebDriver test execution

Apache Ant is a popular build management tool available for Java developers. It is similar to Apache Maven, but does not support project management and dependency management features like Maven. It's a pure build tool.

Ant is another choice to run Selenium WebDriver tests from the command line or through continuous integration tools such as Jenkins.

In this recipe, we will add Ant support to the SeleniumCookbook project created in the Configuring Eclipse and Maven for Selenium WebDriver test development recipe.

Getting ready

You can download and install WinAnt on Windows. WinAnt comes with an installer that can configure Ant through the installer. The WinAnt installer is available at http://code.google.com/p/winant/.

You can also download and configure Ant from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi for other OS platforms. This recipe uses WinAnt on the Windows OS.

How to do it...

Let's set up the SeleniumCookbook project for Ant with the...