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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)

Good practices for the PageObjects design

So, now that you have seen what a simple implementation of PageObject looks like, it's time to consider some good practices in designing PageObjects for your test framework.

Think of a web page as a services provider

At a high level, when you look at a page in a web application, you will find it is an aggregation of various User Services. For example, if you take a look at the All Posts page in our WordPress Admin console, there are many sections in it:

In the preceding screenshot, in the All Posts page, a user can perform the following five activities:

  • Add a new post.
  • Edit a selected post.
  • Delete a selected post.
  • Filter the posts by category.
  • Search for text in all the posts...