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Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide - Second Edition

By : Pallavi Sharma, UNMESH GUNDECHA, Satya Avasarala
Book Image

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)

Introducing RemoteWebDriver

RemoteWebDriver is an implementation class of the WebDriver interface that a test-script developer can use to execute their test scripts via the Selenium Standalone server on a remote machine. There are two parts to RemoteWebDriver: a server and a client. Before we start working with them, let's rewind and see what we've been doing.

The following diagram explains what we've done so far:

The test script using WebDriver client libraries, Chrome Driver (or IE Driver or Gecko Driver for Firefox), and Chrome browser (or IE browser or Firefox browser) is sitting on the same machine. The browser is loading the web application, which may or may not be hosted remotely; anyway, this is outside the scope of our discussion. We will discuss different scenarios of test-script execution, as follows:

The test script is located on a local machine,...