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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 explored some of the many possibilities that are opened up to you when using JavascriptExecutor. We have really just scratched the surface of what is possible, but this chapter should have given you a good solid platform to expand upon.

After reading through this chapter you should be confident in executing JavaScript snippets through the browser and know how to pass in arguments. As well as using synchronous pieces of JavaScript, you will also be able to enhance your tests with asynchronous pieces of JavaScript that will allow you to build user interaction into your automated scripts. Finally you should be aware of when we should and when we shouldn't use a JavaScript executor.

In the next chapter, we are going to have a look at some of the limitations of Selenium. We will also have a look at the ways in which we can work around these limitations...