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Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition

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Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition

Overview of this book

The second edition of Mastering Selenium 3.0 WebDriver starts by showing you how to build your own Selenium framework with Maven. You'll then look at how you can solve the difficult problems that you will undoubtedly come across as you start using Selenium in an enterprise environment and learn how to produce the right feedback when failing. Next, you’ll explore common exceptions that you will come across as you use Selenium, the root causes of these exceptions, and how to fix them. Along the way, you’ll use Advanced User Interactions APIs, running any JavaScript you need through Selenium; and learn how to quickly spin up a Selenium Grid using Docker containers. In the concluding chapters, you‘ll work through a series of scenarios that demonstrate how to extend Selenium to work with external libraries and applications so that you can be sure you are using the right tool for the job.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Selenium – the Future

Selenium 3 is finally out, so what does the future hold now? The next major release is going to be Selenium 4, which will align Selenium with the W3C WebDriver spec (https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/). After this has happened, currently there doesn't really seem to be much of a plan for future development. There will undoubtedly be enhancements to the W3C WebDriver in the future, which Selenium will need to align with, but W3C spec changes are not things that happen overnight. I think it's safe to say that the Selenium API will stabilize and the number of changes will reduce drastically.

So, if Selenium doesn't look like it's going to change all that much, what does the future hold? Well unless you have had your head buried in the sand, you will undoubtedly have heard lots of excitement around machine learning and artificial intelligence...