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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 took a sneak peek at one of the design patterns in Java, which is the command design pattern. We walked through the components of this behavioral pattern and developed the client, invoker, command, and receiver. We also took a look at how to create classes with empty implementations. Finally, we explored the setup of the Selenium Grid node and ran tests in parallel.

This was a very important chapter from a framework design standpoint. In the next chapter, we will touch upon the Data Provider and creating Excel reports. We will then look at TestNG listeners.