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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)

Keeping It Real

In this chapter, we will have a look at some of the things that you cannot do with Selenium, and some of the things that you should not do with Selenium. We will have a look at some solutions that will work around its limitations. The topics we will cover in this chapter are:

  • File downloads
  • Checking network traffic
  • Load testing

The first topic we are going to look at is something that I regularly end up talking about—downloading files with Selenium.