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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we covered the topic of window handles, followed by modal and non-modal dialog. We bifurcated pop-up windows and alerts into modal and non-modal dialog and saw examples of these. We explored the Set interface and the simple for loop for handling popups. We created popups and alerts with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and saw how to handle those using Selenium scripts. Moreover, we had a look at the various methods of the Alert object. We had a look at the switchTo() methods and also grasped of handling frames. In this process, we created a sample frame. Finally, we saw what ChromeOptions were available and also saw options for Internet Explorer and Firefox.

The next chapter is going to cover one of the most important topics: synchronization.