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Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

By : Carl Cocchiaro
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Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

By: Carl Cocchiaro

Overview of this book

The Selenium WebDriver 3.x Technology is an open source API available to test both Browser and Mobile applications. It is completely platform independent in that tests built for one browser or mobile device, will also work on all other browsers and mobile devices. Selenium supports all major development languages which allow it to be tied directly into the technology used to develop the applications. This guide will provide a step-by-step approach to designing and building a data-driven test framework using Selenium WebDriver, Java, and TestNG. The book starts off by introducing users to the Selenium Page Object Design Patterns and D.R.Y Approaches to Software Development. In doing so, it covers designing and building a Selenium WebDriver framework that supports both Browser and Mobile Devices. It will lead the user through a journey of architecting their own framework with a scalable driver class, Java utility classes, JSON Data Provider, Data-Driven Test Classes, and support for third party tools and plugins. Users will learn how to design and build a Selenium Grid from scratch to allow the framework to scale and support different browsers, mobile devices, versions, and platforms, and how they can leverage third party grids in the Cloud like SauceLabs. Other topics covered include designing abstract base and sub-classes, inheritance, dual-driver support, parallel testing, testing multi-branded applications, best practices for using locators, and data encapsulation. Finally, you will be presented with a sample fully-functional framework to get them up and running with the Selenium WebDriver for browser testing. By the end of the book, you will be able to design your own automation testing framework and perform data-driven testing with Selenium WebDriver.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface

Inspection of page elements on mobile applications


For mobile applications, there are various tools that can be used for each mobile device, such as the iOS simulator and Android emulator. In this section, we will discuss the Inspector tool built into the Appium Client.

Appium inspector

When building page object classes for mobile applications, the Appium API is used to test the elements on each page. Appium has its own Inspector tool that allows users to inspect the application in an iOS simulator or Android emulator. Once the mobile application is loaded in the simulator or emulator, the user would then run the Inspector tool, which will embed it in a frame inside the tool. Users can then move to each element in the mobile application, and click them to display the locators.

The classes and attributes for the mobile applications may be different from the browser pages, but the page object classes should be built exactly the same using the Selenium Page Object Model. Elements should be defined...