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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)

Separation of concerns with page objects

Our second issue is that, while we abstracted away our WebElement creation, we didn’t abstract away any of the heavy lifting performed by our test script. We are now using a page object, but we are still going to have lots of duplication in our code. Let’s illustrate this by looking at a script to perform a login and how we would do that using our new page objects.

Let's start with a basic login page object:

package com.masteringselenium.page_objects;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

public class LoginPage {

public static By usernameLocator = By.id("username");
public static By passwordLocator = By.id("password");
public static By loginButtonLocator = By.id("login");
}

Next, we need a test that uses this LoginPage object:

@Test
public void logInToTheWebsite...