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Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition

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Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition

Overview of this book

The second edition of Mastering Selenium 3.0 WebDriver starts by showing you how to build your own Selenium framework with Maven. You'll then look at how you can solve the difficult problems that you will undoubtedly come across as you start using Selenium in an enterprise environment and learn how to produce the right feedback when failing. Next, you’ll explore common exceptions that you will come across as you use Selenium, the root causes of these exceptions, and how to fix them. Along the way, you’ll use Advanced User Interactions APIs, running any JavaScript you need through Selenium; and learn how to quickly spin up a Selenium Grid using Docker containers. In the concluding chapters, you‘ll work through a series of scenarios that demonstrate how to extend Selenium to work with external libraries and applications so that you can be sure you are using the right tool for the job.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

So, which option should I use?

At the end of the day, it really doesn't matter. Use the option that you find most comfortable and is the best fit for your particular set of problems. The rest of the examples in this book will however be using the Query object.

What is more important to remember is that when using page objects, our page objects are going to abstract away all of the heavy work of actually driving the browser. Things that we want to check should be in our tests. 

This separation of concerns has two benefits. First of all, it ensures that people do not inadvertently bring assertions into their tests when they don't mean to. Secondly, it means that your tests do not depend upon specific implementations in your page objects. You don't want a test to lose the ability to fail because somebody updated a page object and removed an assertion that shouldn...