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Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide - Second Edition

By : Pallavi Sharma, UNMESH GUNDECHA, Satya Avasarala
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Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide - Second Edition

By: Pallavi Sharma, UNMESH GUNDECHA, Satya Avasarala

Overview of this book

Selenium WebDriver is an open source automation tool implemented through a browser-specific driver, which sends commands to a browser and retrieves results. The latest version of Selenium 3 brings with it a lot of new features that change the way you use and setup Selenium WebDriver. This book covers all those features along with the source code, including a demo website that allows you to work with an HMTL5 application and other examples throughout the book. Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide will walk you through the various APIs of Selenium WebDriver, which are used in automation tests, followed by a discussion of the various WebDriver implementations available. You will learn to strategize and handle rich web UI using advanced WebDriver API along with real-time challenges faced in WebDriver and solutions to handle them. You will discover different types and domains of testing such as cross-browser testing, load testing, and mobile testing with Selenium. Finally, you will also be introduced to data-driven testing using TestNG to create your own automation framework. By the end of this book, you will be able to select any web application and automate it the way you want.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Chapter 11

  1. Explain Data-driven Testing.

Data-driven is a test automation framework approach, where input test data is stored in tabular format or in a spreadsheet format and a single test script reads each row of the data, which can be a unique test case, and executes the steps. This enables reuse of test scripts and increases test coverage with varied test data combinations.

  1. True or False: Selenium supports data-driven testing.

False.

  1. What are two methods in TestNG to create data-driven tests?

TestNG provides two methods for data-driven testing: Suite Parameters and Data Providers.

  1. Explain the DataProvider method in TestNG.

The DataProvider method in TestNG is a special method annotated with the @DataProvider annotation. It returns an array of objects. We can return tabular data reading from any format such as CSV or Excel to test the test case using the data provider...