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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)

Starting out with page objects

Let's take goToTheAboutPage() as an example. We have refactored it to make it nice and clear, but we now want to abstract things away into a page object to encourage other people to use all that hard work finding the correct locators. Let's create two page objects called IndexPage and AboutPage and move our element definitions across into them. We will start off with the index page:

package com.masteringselenium.page_objects;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

public class IndexPage {

public static By heading = By.cssSelector("h1");
public static By mainText = By.cssSelector(".col-md-4 > p");
public static By button = By.cssSelector(".btn");
public static By aboutLinkLocator =
By.cssSelector(".left-footer > a");
}

Then, we need to create the page object for the...