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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

Designing and building subclasses for feature-specific pages using inheritance techniques

After building the abstract base class for the AUT in the framework, subclasses need to be developed for each feature page. In following the Selenium Page Object Model, users should build a separate page object class for each page in the browser or mobile app.

As the subclasses are built, whenever common components are found that pertain to most pages, they can be added to the base class. Alternatively, if only on select pages, a separate page object class can be developed for a partial page. The base class can then be extended for those pages that need to inherit the components in it. A good example would be the table component, which we will cover in this chapter. Here is how the base class can be extended:

// extended base page object class
public class BrowserBaseExtPO<M extends...