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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)
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Passing optional arguments and parameters to the driver

In many instances, users will want to change the default behavior of the browser before the test starts, or on the fly when creating a new driver during the test run. We previously covered setting default preferences and options in the setDriver method to keep the test environment static. Now, we can alter the default preferences using the varargs parameter in Java, as an optional parameter to the setDriver method. Here are the basics:

  • The varargs parameter to setDriver will be a Map<String, Object> type
  • Map can be passed into the driver when creating a new browser instance, or by setting a JVM argument of mapped preferences
  • JVM arguments used to pass in mapped preferences can be done in a TestNG XML file as a parameter, an IDE Run Configuration using a JVM arg, or as a -Dswitch to the command-line executable
  • Each browser...