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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)

Builder design pattern

The builder pattern is a creational design pattern in the huge collection of design patterns. It is used to create complex objects from a collection of other objects. This complex object is built in a step-by-step manner and in such a way that the constituent objects are unaware of what the final object is.

A car is an ideal example of the builder pattern. The functionality of any car is almost the same. It has many components working together, such as the engine, radiator, and brake system. The radiator, as a standalone object, does not know what the final object is going to be. It may be any kind of car. The radiator can be considered a comparatively simple object when compared with the final product that is any car.

Another example of the builder pattern is a laptop. The functionality of the laptop is quite complex, but the constituent parts, such as...