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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

ExtentReports Reporter API class


The reporting capabilities of the framework are very important. There are many third-party open source APIs that can be used to build and/or email reports of the Selenium test results.

One particularly nice tool is called ExtentReports and it is developed by AventStack. This Java and .NET API allows users to build and customize an HTML report of all the TestNG results data for a Selenium suite run. There is a Community Edition, which is a free open source tool, and a Professional Edition, which has a lot of additional features.

Note

The ExtentReports tool is developed by (c) AventStack and is located at http://extentreports.com/.

The ExtentReports Professional Edition has a number of different features from the Community Edition. Some of those features are:

  • Offline reports: This feature provides the ability to create reports offline instead of interactively while the test is running
  • Configure view visibility: This feature allows users the ability to turn off some...