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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)

File downloads with Selenium

At some point in your career, you are probably going to work with a website that allows the user to download something. There are many different types of things that may be downloadable. The most common things are probably:

  • PDF files
  • Pictures (PNG, JPG, and GIF)
  • Archives
  • Installers

When you are working on a site that allows you to download files of some type, you will be expected to test that this functionality works and, at some point, the idea of writing some automated checks for this functionality will probably come up.

The scenario

You are working in a small, agile team and are in a pre-planning session with your tech lead, business analyst, and product owner. The product owner would like...