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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)

Selenium is amazing – how can I help make it better?

There are lots of ways in which you can help the Selenium project. Believe it or not, it's not just hardcore coding skills that are required.

The first and the most important thing that you can do is find problems with Selenium and report them. The Selenium developers do an awesome job, but they are not infallible. They need your help to find problems and raise defects so that they can fix them and make Selenium even better.

The problem with a lot of bugs that occur in Selenium is that they are unclear and range from hard to impossible to replicate. One of the best things that you can supply when you report a defect is a Selenium script that reproduces the problem. This gives the developers a way to see the issue first-hand, and it helps massively with regard to debugging. It can also form the basis of a test to...