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Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition

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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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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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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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Summary
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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

Adding Selenium Remote Control for different machines

Selenium Grid is a very powerful tool when you add it to multiple operating systems. This allows us to check that, for instance, whether Firefox on Windows and Firefox on Linux is doing the same thing during a test. To register new remote controls to the grid from a machine other than the one hosting the hub, we need to tell it where the hub is.

Let's see this in action.

Selenium Server for different machines

For this section, you will need to have another machine available for you to use. This can be the Ubuntu machine that you needed for the previous chapter. If you have a small grid, then you can name it according to the operating system that it is running on.

  1. Open Command Prompt or a console.

  2. Run the java -jar selenium-server-standalone.jar -role node -hub http://<name of server>:4444/grid/register command.

  3. When you have run this, your grid site should look like the following:

We have added a new remote control to the grid from a...

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