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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

Naming conventions for test methods


One standard that is usually followed loosely is naming conventions. But it is still important to put some standards in place to reduce the maintenance of the overall test classes. In this section, we will briefly set standards for naming test classes, data files, methods, setup, cleanup, groups, and row ID parameters.

Test classes and data files

We covered file naming conventions earlier, but to refresh the naming convention for test classes, it should be something like FunctionalAreaTest.java. The Test suffix tells the user that this is a test class and not a Java utility class.

Since we are using JSON as the data file format, each test class should have a corresponding data file minus the Test suffix; so in this case, FunctionalArea.json.

So, in the example test class we are building in this chapter, the class is called RockBandsTest.java and the data file is called RockBands.json. We will build onto that class as we define each section of it.

Test methods...