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Mastering Selenium WebDriver

By : Mark Collin
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Mastering Selenium WebDriver

By: Mark Collin

Overview of this book

<p>Selenium WebDriver, also known as Selenium 2, is a UI automation tool used by software developers and QA engineers to test their web applications on different web browsers. The Selenium WebDriver API is fully object oriented compared with the deprecated Selenium RC. The WebDriver API provides multi-language support and run tests on all the most popular browsers.</p> <p>In this wide and complex World Wide Web era, this book will teach you how to tame it by gaining an in-depth understanding of the Selenium API.</p> <p>This book starts with how to solve the difficult problems that you will undoubtedly come across as you start using Selenium in an enterprise environment, followed by producing the right feedback when failing, and what the common exceptions are, explain them properly (including the root cause) and tell you how to fix them. You will also see the differences between the three available implicit waits and explicit waits, and learn to working with effective page objects.</p> <p>Moving on, the book shows you how to utilize the Advanced User Interactions API, how you can run any JavaScript you need through Selenium, and how to quickly spin up a Selenium Grid using Docker containers.</p> <p>At the end, the book will discuss the upcoming Selenium W3C specification and how it is going to affect the future of Selenium.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Selenium WebDriver
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Starting out with page objects


Let's take goToTheAboutPage(). We have refactored it to make it nice and clear, but we now want to abstract things away into a page object to encourage other people to use all that hard work of finding the correct locators. Let's create two page objects called indexPage and aboutPage and move our element definitions across into in. We will start off with the index page, as follows:

package com.masteringselenium.page_objects;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

public class IndexPage {

    public static By heading = By.cssSelector("h1");
    public static By mainText = By.cssSelector(".col-md-4 > p");
    public static By button = By.cssSelector(".btn");
    public static By aboutLinkLocator = By.cssSelector(".left-footer > a");
}

Then, we need to create the page object for the about page, as follows:

package com.masteringselenium.page_objects;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

public class AboutPage {

    public static By heading = By.cssSelector("h1");
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