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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

Selenium Grid Architecture support using the RemoteWebDriver and AppiumDriver classes

When creating a WebDriver instance, users will pass specified preferences, options, and capabilities to the driver running locally in their environment. As previously mentioned, users can store the actual Chrome driver, Firefox driver, and other driver files in their repo, so they won't have to be installed in each development environment. They can then point the local driver instance to the repo location using a desired capability.

Now, when designing and using the Selenium Grid Architecture to run tests against, the user will have to cast the browser or mobile capabilities to the RemoteWebDriver class, or remote AppiumDriver server. This capability should be built into the driver class as well, so the same class can support local, remote, and third-party test platforms. The Selenium Grid...