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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

Sauce Labs Test Cloud services


As an alternative to building an in-house Selenium Grid, there are various third-party service providers that host the virtual machines for companies to use in testing browser and mobile applications. There are advantages and disadvantages to using a third-party provider, and these will be discussed later on in the chapter.

One of the best-in-class providers is Sauce Labs. They provide a Selenium/Appium testing solution in the cloud, where virtual machines are created on-demand with a variety of platforms and browser or mobile devices of choice. The company boasts of having over 900 platforms for browser compatibility testing and hundreds of platforms for mobile simulator/emulator, mobile web, native, hybrid, and real-device application testing. Let's take a look at some of the key features of their service.

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