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Learn Selenium

By : UNMESH GUNDECHA, Carl Cocchiaro
Book Image

Learn Selenium

By: UNMESH GUNDECHA, Carl Cocchiaro

Overview of this book

Selenium WebDriver 3.x is an open source API for testing both browser and mobile applications. With the help of this book, you can build a solid foundation and learn to easily perform end-to-end testing on web and mobile browsers. You'll begin by focusing on the Selenium Page Object Model for software development. You'll architect your own framework with a scalable driver class, Java utility classes, and support for third-party tools and plugins. Next, you'll design and build a Selenium Grid from scratch to enable the framework to scale and support different browsers, mobile devices, and platforms. You'll also strategize and handle a rich web UI using the advanced WebDriver API, and learn techniques to tackle real-time challenges in WebDriver. Later chapters will guide you through performing different types of testing, such as cross-browser testing, load testing, and mobile testing. Finally, you will be introduced to data-driven testing, using TestNG to create your own automation framework. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to design your own automation testing framework and perform data-driven testing with Selenium WebDriver. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt books: • Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide - Second Edition by Unmesh Gundecha • Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing by Carl Cocchiaro
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page

Introduction

Java classes that are not Selenium page object classes, test classes, or data files, but support testing browser or mobile applications, can be considered utility classes. Most utility classes are static in nature, and use Java API methods that are not specific to any feature or test. They can include methods that operate on the browser or mobile device itself, but are not specific to the application running on them.

For example, the Selenium ExpectedConditions class has common methods to synchronize tests against actions occurring on a page, but it doesn't matter what the pages are, browser or mobile. Utilities can be built for file operations in reading, writing, or deleting files during tests. Test listener classes can be built, leveraging the TestNG TestListenerAdapter class, to log output to files and/or the console during test runs.

Other types of utilities...