Book Image

Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition

Book Image

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)

Having your tests written for you

This is what everybody is frantically working toward: creating artificial intelligence that you can point at a website and let it work out how to test it all by itself. I suspect this is something lots of hiring managers can't wait for because they think that they will be able to get rid of a bunch of staff who will no longer be required. I think that the reality is going to be very different!

Once we have created this amazing artificial intelligence that is capable of learning how a site works and creating test scripts automatically, it will still have to be trained. After it has been trained, it will also need to be checked to make sure that its training has worked. Our job will change from testing websites, to testing that artificial intelligence is testing websites properly.

I would encourage you to read this experience report from Angie...