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Selenium WebDriver Quick Start Guide

By : Pinakin Chaubal
Book Image

Selenium WebDriver Quick Start Guide

By: Pinakin Chaubal

Overview of this book

Selenium WebDriver is a platform-independent API for automating the testing of both browser and mobile applications. It is also a core technology in many other browser automation tools, APIs, and frameworks. This book will guide you through the WebDriver APIs that are used in automation tests. Chapter by chapter, we will construct the building blocks of a page object model framework as you learn about the required Java and Selenium methods and terminology. The book starts with an introduction to the same-origin policy, cross-site scripting dangers, and the Document Object Model (DOM). Moving ahead, we'll learn about XPath, which allows us to select items on a page, and how to design a customized XPath. After that, we will be creating singleton patterns and drivers. Then you will learn about synchronization and handling pop-up windows. You will see how to create a factory for browsers and understand command design patterns applicable to this area. At the end of the book, we tie all this together by creating a framework and implementing multi-browser testing with Selenium Grid.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Modal and non-modal alerts

Next, we will see how to create modal and non-modal alerts and also handle those through Selenium code. In modal alerts, we will see JavaScript alerts, and in non-modal alerts, we will see jQuery alerts. Let's first create some alerts.

Creating JavaScript and jQuery alerts

The following is the code to generate a simple modal alert in JavaScript. This alert in the code will appear on the main page and one cannot access the main page in the background until either the OK or Cancel button is clicked:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function display_alerts(){
var text1;
if (confirm("Click")) {
text1 = &quot...