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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

Synchronizing a test with FluentWait


The FluentWait class is an implementation of Selenium WebDriver's Wait interface. Using the FluentWait class, we can define the maximum amount of time to wait for an element or condition as well as the frequency with which to check for the condition. We can also configure it to ignore specific types of exceptions such as the NoSuchElement exception while searching for an element.

Unlike implicit and explicit wait, FluentWait uses a maximum timeout value and polling frequency. For example, if we set the maximum timeout value as 20 seconds and polling frequency as 2 seconds, WebDriver will check for an element every 2 seconds until the maximum value. In addition to this, we can configure FluentWait to ignore specific types of exceptions while waiting for the condition.

The FluentWait class is helpful in automating AJAX applications or scenarios where element load time varies often.

In this recipe, we will explore some of these conditions with the FluentWait...