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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)

Introducing the Java PageFactory class

Inside the WebDriver support library, the PageFactory class provides a series of annotations that you can use when you create your page objects. 

You can use this class to predefine a series of WebElement objects that can be used later in your test. The PageFactory class turns these WebElement objects into proxied objects using a Java Proxy class. When you try to use them, the annotations that you specify are used to transform these proxied objects into real WebElement objects that can be used in your tests. We need to do two things to use the PageFactory class:

  • Annotate the variables that we want to proxy
  • Initialize the proxied objects before we try to use them

Using PageFactory annotations

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