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Selenium Essentials

Selenium Essentials

By : Sams
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Overview of this book

If you are a developer who wants to migrate from Selenium RC or any other automation tool to Selenium WebDriver, then this book is for you. Knowledge of automation tools is necessary to follow the examples in this book.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. The Selenium IDE
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1. The Selenium IDE
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WebDriver playback
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Locator prioritization
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Avoiding Selenium export
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The Selenium IDE clipboard
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Data Driven tests
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Selenium IDE JavaScript functions
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Selenium Builder
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2. Selenium WebDriver Cross-browser Tests
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2. Selenium WebDriver Cross-browser Tests
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Selenium WebDriver compatibility tests
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Selenium cross-browser tests on the cloud
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Selenium headless browser testing
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Switching user agents
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Tests on specific Firefox versions
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Tests from the custom Chrome profile
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3. Selenium WebDriver Functions
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3. Selenium WebDriver Functions
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Basic WebDriver functions
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Locating WebElements
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WebElement functions
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Navigation
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Cookies
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Window functions
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Select functions
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Handling alerts and pop-ups
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Mouse and keyboard actions
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4. Selenium WebDriver Best Practices
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4. Selenium WebDriver Best Practices
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Handling Ajax websites
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Waits
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The PageObject pattern
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The EventFiringWebDriver class
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Handling iframes
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The JavascriptExecutor class
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5. Selenium WebDriver Frameworks
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5. Selenium WebDriver Frameworks
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Behaviour-Driven Development
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JXL API Data-Driven framework
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Apache POI Data-Driven framework
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Properties file Data-Driven framework
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Keyword-Driven framework
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Hybrid-Driven framework
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Index
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Index

Chapter 2. Selenium WebDriver Cross-browser Tests

The term cross-browser testing can be applied to both multi-browser testing and compatibility testing. Testing the web application with multiple web browsers is defined as cross-browser testing. A lack of cross-browser testing results in layout and functionality issues. Manually testing an application needs a lot of human effort and time to finish a complex job, but automated tests are carried out to avoid such issues. In general, most of the cross-browser issues are generated while rendering web page elements, which results in a functional and UI-based mess. Selenium WebDriver provides excellent support for automating test cases with the most popular browsers, using their own drivers. Selenium cross-browser tests can also be automated on the cloud using web application tools, such as SauceLabs, BrowserStack, and TestingBot.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Selenium WebDriver compatibility tests
  • Selenium cross...
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