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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)

The actions class

Websites, nowadays, have various features such as double click, drag and drop, and hover, to accomplish certain functionality. A special API called the Actions API is used to handle these scenarios. The actions class implements the builder pattern by creating a composite action made up of constituent actions that are specified by method calls.

Actions is a class in org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions and it extends the base class object. This class has one protected field called action, which is of the CompositeAction type. CompositeAction is a class that collects all actions and triggers them at the same time. CompositeAction implements the Action interface. The action interface has just one method: perform(), which the actions class implements.

There are various methods in the actions class. All of these methods return an actions object unless specified...