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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

Synchronization utility classes


One of the most important classes in the Selenium framework is the library containing all the test "synchronization" methods. In test automation, it is always necessary to "wait" for something to happen on a page after sending an event. That would include such actions as waiting for the page to render, waiting for an Ajax control to complete, waiting for a different page to appear, waiting for an item in a table, and so on. If test scripts are not synchronized, they will randomly fail when applications run faster or slower during execution, throwing exceptions that specific elements are not found. Selenium has introduced a set of classes that accommodate all of the types of synchronization that are required in browser and mobile testing.

Selenium synchronization classes

Some of the highlights of the synchronization classes that will be covered include:

  • The ExpectedConditions class
  • The WebDriverWait/FluentWait classes
  • Custom synchronization class: wrapping ExpectedConditions...