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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

Annotating test class methods using TestNG

When we start building test classes, we need to think about how we want to structure files. We are using TestNG as the test framework technology, so we will need to use the annotations it provides to tag the methods in the class.

Other things to consider: how to instantiate the required page object classes, how to declare local variables, when to use private methods in the class, how to pass data to the test methods, and how to structure Java methods so they become setup, teardown, and test methods. Let's get started on the test class structure itself.

The documentation for TestNG is located at http://testng.org/doc/documentation-main.html.

TestNG annotations

Here is a list of the standard...