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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


Most of the framework components you design and build will be customized to your application under test. However, there are many third-party tools and plugins available you can use to provide better results processing, reporting, performance, and services to the engineers using the framework.

In this chapter, some of the more popular APIs and plugins will be covered such as the Selenium IntelliJ plugin, TestNG, HTML Publisher, BrowserMob Proxy, ExtentReports, and Sauce Labs.

This is the part of the framework that is optional, but will be requested by many users to support the testing, debugging, and certification needs of the CI process in the Continuous Delivery model.

In Chapter 8Designing a Selenium Grid, setting up an in-house grid using the Selenium Grid Architecture was covered, and in this chapter, one of the third-party service providers called Sauce Labs will be discussed.

You will learn how to build in support to the Selenium Framework with third-party tools, APIs, plugins...