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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)

Reliability

When it comes to automation, the reliability of tests is the key. If your tests are not reliable, they will not be trusted, which can have far-reaching consequences. I'm sure you have all worked in environments where test reliability has been hard for one of many reasons; let's have a look at a couple of scenarios.

The test automation team that works in isolation

One of the more common reasons that tests are not reliable is having a dedicated test automation team that works in isolation from the team that develops the application. This should really be avoided if possible, as the test automation team is always playing catch up. The development team rolls out new features that the test automation teams...