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Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Raghavendra Prasad MG

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Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition

4.4 (11)

By: Raghavendra Prasad MG

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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Getting Started with Selenium IDE

1. Getting Started with Selenium IDE

Understanding Selenium IDE

Rules in creating tests with Selenium IDE

Recording your first test with Selenium IDE

Validating a test with assert and verify

Creating comments in your tests

Multiplying windows

Selenium tests against AJAX applications

Storing information from the page in the test

Debugging tests

Creating test suites

Parameterization

Saving tests

What you cannot record

Summary

Self-test questions

2. Locators

2. Locators

Locating elements by ID

Moving elements on the page

Using direct XPath in your test

Leveraging the XPath axis with elements

CSS selectors

Working with elements and their attributes

Summary

Self-test questions

3. Overview of the Selenium WebDriver

3. Overview of the Selenium WebDriver

History of Selenium

Understanding the WebDriver architecture

Merging of two projects

Setting up Eclipse IDE with Java project for Selenium WebDriver and TestNG

Summary

Self-test questions

4. Finding Elements

4. Finding Elements

Finding elements

Using findElement Helper methods

Finding elements using a more generic method

Tips and tricks

Waiting for elements to appear on the page

Summary

Self-test questions

5. Design Patterns

5. Design Patterns

Page objects

Using Page Factory with Page Object

Changing our Page Object to use LoadableComponent

Using LoadableComponent

Summary

Self-test questions

6. Working with WebDriver

6. Working with WebDriver

Working with FirefoxDriver

Working with ChromeDriver

Working with OperaDriver

Working with InternetExplorerDriver

Other important points

Summary

Self-test questions

7. Automation Framework Development and Building Utilities

7. Automation Framework Development and Building Utilities

Automation without framework

Automation with Framework

Test Automation Frameworks Evolution

Form an automated test case using keywords

Building your own utilities for the Selenium automation framework

Summary

Self-test questions

8. Mobile Devices

8. Mobile Devices

Working with Android

Running with OperaDriver on a mobile device

Using OperaDriver on Opera Mobile

Working with iOS

Summary

Self-test questions

9. Getting Started with the Selenium Grid

9. Getting Started with the Selenium Grid

Understanding Selenium Grid

The Selenium Grid hub

Adding instances to the hub

Adding Selenium Remote Control for different machines

Adding Selenium Server to do specific browser tasks on specific operating systems

Running tests against the grid

Running tests in parallel

Summary

Self-test questions

10. Advanced User Interactions

10. Advanced User Interactions

What is Advanced User Interactions API?

The Actions class

Summary

Self-test questions

11. Working with HTML5

11. Working with HTML5

Working with application cache

Interacting with browser connections

Working with WebStorage

Summary

Self-test questions

12. Advanced Topics

12. Advanced Topics

Capturing screenshots

Using XVFB with Selenium

Working with BrowserMob Proxy

Summary

Self-test questions

13. Migrating from Remote Control to WebDriver

13. Migrating from Remote Control to WebDriver

WebDriverBackedSelenium

Summary

Self-test question

A. Automation Prerequisites for Selenium Automation

A. Automation Prerequisites for Selenium Automation

About Java programming

Inheritance

Polymorphism

Encapsulation

Constructors

Interface

Data types and variables in Java

Java operators

Decision and control statements

Loops

String class functions

Collections

Exception handling

Java coding standards

Summary

Self-test Questions

B. Answers for Self-test Questions

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Appendix A

Index

Index

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Finding elements using a more generic method

We have had a look at using helper methods to find elements on the page. The downside to this is that, if something changes, you need to change the entire method that you are using to find the element. This can increase maintenance costs.

The other approach is to use the findElement() method, pass in the By abstract class, and call static methods on this class.

Let's see this in action.

Using findElement()

In this section, we will look at using the findElement call that is on the WebDriver object. This is how we normally find elements using Selenium WebDriver:

Open your Java IDE.

Use the following command:

driver.get("http://book.theautomatedtester.co.uk")
driver.findElement(By.linkText("Chapter1"));

Run your test.

We have just seen that we can find an element by passing in the By object. This is a static class that gives people a mechanism to find elements, as we did earlier in the chapter. This will throw NoSuchElementException...

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