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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Second Edition

By : UNMESH GUNDECHA
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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

Handling a simple JavaScript alert box

Web developers use JavaScript alerts to inform users about validation errors, warnings, getting a response for an action, accepting an input value, and so on. Alert's are modal windows displayed by browsers where user has to take action before processing further. You can find more about JavaScript alert() method at http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_win_alert.asp.

JavaScript alerts are implemented differently by browsers compared to other dialog windows such as Print, Save, File Download, and so on.

Tests will need to verify that the user is shown correct alerts while testing. It is also required to handle alerts while performing an end-to-end workflow. The Selenium WebDriver provides an Alert interface for working with JavaScript alerts.

In this recipe, we will automate interaction with a simple alert box that is often used to notify the user with information such as errors, warnings, and success. When an alert box pops up, the user will have to...