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Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition

Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Raghavendra Prasad MG
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Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition

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By: Raghavendra Prasad MG
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Overview of this book

If you are a software developer with a basic knowledge of testing and are interested in automated testing using Selenium, this is the book for you. No prior knowledge of Selenium is required.
Table of Contents (17 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. Getting Started with Selenium IDE
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1. Getting Started with Selenium IDE
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Understanding Selenium IDE
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Rules in creating tests with Selenium IDE
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Recording your first test with Selenium IDE
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Validating a test with assert and verify
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Creating comments in your tests
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Multiplying windows
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Selenium tests against AJAX applications
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Storing information from the page in the test
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Debugging tests
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Creating test suites
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Parameterization
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Saving tests
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What you cannot record
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Summary
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Self-test questions
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2. Locators
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2. Locators
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Locating elements by ID
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Moving elements on the page
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Using direct XPath in your test
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Leveraging the XPath axis with elements
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CSS selectors
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Working with elements and their attributes
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Summary
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Self-test questions
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3. Overview of the Selenium WebDriver
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3. Overview of the Selenium WebDriver
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History of Selenium
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Understanding the WebDriver architecture
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Merging of two projects
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Setting up Eclipse IDE with Java project for Selenium WebDriver and TestNG
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Summary
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Self-test questions
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4. Finding Elements
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4. Finding Elements
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Finding elements
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Using findElement Helper methods
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Finding elements using a more generic method
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Tips and tricks
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Waiting for elements to appear on the page
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Summary
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5. Design Patterns
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5. Design Patterns
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Page objects
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Using Page Factory with Page Object
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Changing our Page Object to use LoadableComponent
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Using LoadableComponent
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6. Working with WebDriver
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6. Working with WebDriver
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Working with FirefoxDriver
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Working with ChromeDriver
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Working with OperaDriver
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Working with InternetExplorerDriver
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Other important points
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7. Automation Framework Development and Building Utilities
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7. Automation Framework Development and Building Utilities
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Automation without framework
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Automation with Framework
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Test Automation Frameworks Evolution
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Form an automated test case using keywords
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Building your own utilities for the Selenium automation framework
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Summary
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8. Mobile Devices
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8. Mobile Devices
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Working with Android
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Running with OperaDriver on a mobile device
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Using OperaDriver on Opera Mobile
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Working with iOS
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9. Getting Started with the Selenium Grid
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9. Getting Started with the Selenium Grid
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Understanding Selenium Grid
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The Selenium Grid hub
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Adding instances to the hub
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Adding Selenium Remote Control for different machines
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Adding Selenium Server to do specific browser tasks on specific operating systems
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Running tests against the grid
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Running tests in parallel
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10. Advanced User Interactions
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10. Advanced User Interactions
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What is Advanced User Interactions API?
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The Actions class
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11. Working with HTML5
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11. Working with HTML5
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Working with application cache
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Interacting with browser connections
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Working with WebStorage
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12. Advanced Topics
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12. Advanced Topics
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Capturing screenshots
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Using XVFB with Selenium
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Working with BrowserMob Proxy
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13. Migrating from Remote Control to WebDriver
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13. Migrating from Remote Control to WebDriver
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WebDriverBackedSelenium
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A. Automation Prerequisites for Selenium Automation
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A. Automation Prerequisites for Selenium Automation
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About Java programming
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Inheritance
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Polymorphism
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Encapsulation
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Constructors
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Interface
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Data types and variables in Java
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Java operators
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Decision and control statements
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Loops
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String class functions
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Collections
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Exception handling
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Java coding standards
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B. Answers for Self-test Questions
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
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Chapter 13
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Appendix A
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Index
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Index

Using direct XPath in your test

As I mentioned in the first part of this section, having // as the start of your XPath is seen as a greedy query since it will parse the entire DOM until it finds the element that you want to find. If you want to work against an element that is always in a certain place, you can use a more direct XPath.

Finding elements by direct XPath

Instead of using //, you can use a single /, but you will need to make sure that the first node in your query is HTML. Let's see an example of this:

  1. Open Selenium IDE.

  2. Navigate to http://book.theautomatedtester.co.uk/chapter2.

  3. Type xpath=/html/body/div[2]/div[3]/input into the Target input of Selenium IDE.

  4. Click on the Find button.

The previous locator will find the same element as before. This type of XPath query will find the element fractionally quicker, but if your UI is going to change, it may fail if the element is moved into a different area of the page. One thing to really note is that XPath locators can be extremely fragile...

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