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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

Appium server and mobile simulator/emulator command-line options

The mobile device simulator and emulator nodes work basically the same as the browser nodes on the Selenium Grid. You need to build a bash or PowerShell script to start the Appium server, and in the case of the Android emulator, there is a command-line option to start the emulator. The Appium driver for the iPhone will launch the correct iPhone/iPad simulator and close it when complete.

Let's look at a couple of sample scripts and configuration files to start up the mobile device nodes.

Appium nodes

Appium has an environment setup procedure for setting up the iPhone Xcode SDK and Android SDK, along with the required simulators and emulators.

The Appium setup instructions...