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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

By : UNMESH GUNDECHA
5 (1)
Book Image

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

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 (21 chapters)
Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with WebDriver events


The Selenium WebDriver provides the EventFiringWebDriver class, which listens to various events happening during the test execution. For example, events are raised when we navigate to a page, when a click is performed on an element, or value is changed. The following table lists all the events that we can track during the test execution:

Event

Description

beforeNavigateTo

This method is called before the get(String url) or the navigate().to(String url) method is called.

afterNavigateTo

This method is called after the get(String url) or the navigate().to(String url) method is called.

beforeNavigateBack

This method is called before the navigate().back() method.

afterNavigateBack

This method is called after the navigate().back() method.

beforeNavigateForward

This method is called before the navigate().forward() method.

afterNavigateForward

This method is called after the navigate().forward() method.

beforeFindBy

This method is called...