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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we had a look at various different ways of creating page objects. It should now be clear that there are many slightly different ways to implement them. One of the key things to remember is to try and use your page objects to reduce duplication, which in turn will make your code concise and your automated checks readable. Another thing to remember is to put your assertions into your tests, not inside your page objects. Page objects are used to control the web page that you are testing. Methods annotated with @Test are used to validate that the web page you are testing does what it is expected to do.

By the time you have finished reading this chapter, you will understand that page objects do not need to define actual pages, they can just define collections of related objects. As a result you will be confidently building highly readable fluent page objects...