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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)

Turning your page objects into a readable DSL

Well it's actually not that hard to make things better. Earlier in this chapter, we moved our page object initialization into the constructor and had a look at a way of initializing page objects without passing in any parameters. Let's use this simplicity to start turning our page objects into a fluent, readable DSL.

We will start off by taking our index page object and creating a reference to the header and footer page objects inside it:

package com.masteringselenium.query_page_objects;

import com.lazerycode.selenium.util.Query;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;

public class IndexPage extends BasePage {

private Query heading = new Query(By.cssSelector("h1"), driver);
private Query mainText = new Query(By.cssSelector(".col-md-4 >
p"
), driver);
private Query button = new Query(By.cssSelector...