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Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

By : Carl Cocchiaro
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Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

By: Carl Cocchiaro

Overview of this book

The Selenium WebDriver 3.x Technology is an open source API available to test both Browser and Mobile applications. It is completely platform independent in that tests built for one browser or mobile device, will also work on all other browsers and mobile devices. Selenium supports all major development languages which allow it to be tied directly into the technology used to develop the applications. This guide will provide a step-by-step approach to designing and building a data-driven test framework using Selenium WebDriver, Java, and TestNG. The book starts off by introducing users to the Selenium Page Object Design Patterns and D.R.Y Approaches to Software Development. In doing so, it covers designing and building a Selenium WebDriver framework that supports both Browser and Mobile Devices. It will lead the user through a journey of architecting their own framework with a scalable driver class, Java utility classes, JSON Data Provider, Data-Driven Test Classes, and support for third party tools and plugins. Users will learn how to design and build a Selenium Grid from scratch to allow the framework to scale and support different browsers, mobile devices, versions, and platforms, and how they can leverage third party grids in the Cloud like SauceLabs. Other topics covered include designing abstract base and sub-classes, inheritance, dual-driver support, parallel testing, testing multi-branded applications, best practices for using locators, and data encapsulation. Finally, you will be presented with a sample fully-functional framework to get them up and running with the Selenium WebDriver for browser testing. By the end of the book, you will be able to design your own automation testing framework and perform data-driven testing with Selenium WebDriver.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface

Introduction


This final chapter is a working set of sample classes to demonstrate some of the best practices and standards that were discussed in this book. Users should be able to take the sample classes and run them in their own IDE after setting up their Selenium development environment.

The samples were built using Chrome, Firefox, and IE11 browsers. Users should download the latest Selenium 3.x JAR files, TestNG JAR files, and the required browser driver releases to support them. The following JARs and files are required to get the sample tests running:

  • Java 1.8 SDK and JRE
  • IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3
  • Selenium 3.7.1 WebDriver JARs
  • TestNG 6.11 JARs
  • ExtentReports 3.1.0 JARs
  • ChromeDriver.exe 2.33 (Windows 32-bit; there is no current 64-bit driver)
  • Firefox GeckoDriver.exe 0.19.1 (Windows 64-bit)
  • IEDriverServer.exe 3.7.1 (Windows 32-bit; runs faster than the 64-bit driver)
  • Chrome browser 62.0
  • Firefox browser 57.0
  • Internet Explorer browser 11.0

Users must place the files in a project folder in their IDE and...