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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

Casting JSON data to Java objects

At this point, it would be good to recap some of the things we learned about designing JSON objects and how to use them in the test methods. Let's take each point separately and discuss.

JSON object

The JSON DataProvider designed earlier returns an array of objects. In simpler terms, we cast it at runtime to a JSONObject type when passed to the test methods. This JSONObject can then be used in any way the user wants—passing it to a Java object of a specific type, passing it to the Java builder class interface, assigning to local variables in the test method, and so on.

The main goal is to extract the data from the JSON file, convert it on the fly, and pass it into page object methods to...