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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

Introducing RemoteWebDriver

RemoteWebDriver is an implementation class of the WebDriver interface that a test-script developer can use to execute their test scripts via the Selenium Standalone server on a remote machine. There are two parts to RemoteWebDriver: a server and a client. Before we start working with them, let's rewind and see what we've been doing.

The following diagram explains what we've done so far:

The test script using WebDriver client libraries, Chrome Driver (or IE Driver or Gecko Driver for Firefox), and Chrome browser (or IE browser or Firefox browser) is sitting on the same machine. The browser is loading the web application, which may or may not be hosted remotely; anyway, this is outside the scope of our discussion. We will discuss different scenarios of test-script execution, as follows:

The test script is located on a local machine, while...