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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

Standards for using dynamic locators

There will always be a set of standard objects on a page that remain static each time you navigate to the page. Those are the elements you define up-front in the page object classes: buttons, links, tables, text fields, drop-down lists, logos, and so on.

Now, say you have a page that you create dynamic elements on, such as accounts, servers, settings, or let's just say "widgets". Each time your set of tests runs, it creates all different types of widgets with various preferences, names, timestamps, and so on.

You certainly don't want to clutter up your page objects with a bunch of static elements that the data must match each time you test. In this case, you can build the dynamic locators on the fly using partial string matches of the widgets in the list, table, or page.

In this section, we will cover using single and multiple...