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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

Using property files to select browsers, devices, versions, platforms, languages, and many more

Rather than hardcoding default URLs, paths, revisions, mobile device settings, and so on into the driver class itself, it makes more sense to encapsulate all those settings into a properties file. This way, users do not have to traverse through code to change a setting, driver version, or any paths required to support running the driver across platforms such as Windows, iOS, and Linux. Also, different sets of properties can be stored in the file for different environments such as local, remote, or third-party grids. Properties can be stored and retrieved in Java using the Properties class. The following code examples show property file formats, and the use of properties files in the Selenium driver class:

// Properties Class
public class CreateDriver {
private Properties driverProps...