Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition

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Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition

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Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition

Overview of this book

Learning Selenium Testing Tools Third Edition

Learning Selenium Testing Tools Third Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started with Selenium IDE

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

What you cannot record

Self-test questions

Locators

Locating elements by ID

Moving elements on the page

Using direct XPath in your test

Leveraging the XPath axis with elements

Working with elements and their attributes

Self-test questions

Overview of the Selenium WebDriver

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

Self-test questions

Finding Elements

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

Self-test questions

Design Patterns

Design Patterns

Using Page Factory with Page Object

Changing our Page Object to use LoadableComponent

Using LoadableComponent

Self-test questions

Working with WebDriver

Working with WebDriver

Working with FirefoxDriver

Working with ChromeDriver

Working with OperaDriver

Working with InternetExplorerDriver

Other important points

Self-test questions

Automation Framework Development and Building Utilities

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

Self-test questions

Mobile Devices

Working with Android

Running with OperaDriver on a mobile device

Using OperaDriver on Opera Mobile

Working with iOS

Self-test questions

Getting Started with the Selenium Grid

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

Self-test questions

Advanced User Interactions

Advanced User Interactions

What is Advanced User Interactions API?

The Actions class

Self-test questions

Working with HTML5

Working with HTML5

Working with application cache

Interacting with browser connections

Working with WebStorage

Self-test questions

Advanced Topics

Advanced Topics

Capturing screenshots

Using XVFB with Selenium

Working with BrowserMob Proxy

Self-test questions

Migrating from Remote Control to WebDriver

Migrating from Remote Control to WebDriver

WebDriverBackedSelenium

Self-test question

Automation Prerequisites for Selenium Automation

Automation Prerequisites for Selenium Automation

About Java programming

Data types and variables in Java

Decision and control statements

String class functions

Exception handling

Java coding standards

Self-test Questions

Answers for Self-test Questions

Answers for Self-test Questions

Index

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Chapter 7. Automation Framework Development and Building Utilities

This chapter will be an introduction to automation framework, various types the automation frameworks, and the analysis of the best suitable automation framework for AUT (Application Under Test). You will learn the design and implementation of the Keyword + Data driven = Hybrid automation framework with the most successful methodology. We will also look into handling objects in practice, that is, using the Page Object factory concept using Selenium—WebDriver and TestNG on Eclipse.

Framework implementation contains integration of HTML reports and logs. This chapter will help you to build your own utilities for the framework.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

Why use automation frameworks
The evolution of frameworks and analysis
Understanding Hybrid Automation Framework in detail, including architecture, design, and implementation using the Page Object factory concept using Selenium—Web Driver and TestNG...