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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)

First steps toward the framework

Create the following packages in src/main/java:

  • org.packt.invokers
  • org.packt.receivers
  • org.packt.command
  • org.packt.client
  • org.packt.testbase

In the org.packt.testbase package, create our TestBase class. This will serve as the base class for all of our classes.

This base class has methods for the following:

  • Sendkeys
  • Sendkeys using JavascriptExecutor
  • Double click
  • Context click

You can add additional methods to this test base and the changes will percolate throughout the framework since all of our classes will extend the test base. The following code shows the declarations, the various methods for sending different keystrokes, and clicking elements:

public class TestBase {
public static WebDriver driver = null;
protected static Logger log = null;
protected static Utilities util = null;
protected static Actions actions = null;
protected static...