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Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide - Second Edition

By : Pallavi Sharma, UNMESH GUNDECHA, Satya Avasarala
Book Image

Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide - Second Edition

By: Pallavi Sharma, UNMESH GUNDECHA, Satya Avasarala

Overview of this book

Selenium WebDriver is an open source automation tool implemented through a browser-specific driver, which sends commands to a browser and retrieves results. The latest version of Selenium 3 brings with it a lot of new features that change the way you use and setup Selenium WebDriver. This book covers all those features along with the source code, including a demo website that allows you to work with an HMTL5 application and other examples throughout the book. Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide will walk you through the various APIs of Selenium WebDriver, which are used in automation tests, followed by a discussion of the various WebDriver implementations available. You will learn to strategize and handle rich web UI using advanced WebDriver API along with real-time challenges faced in WebDriver and solutions to handle them. You will discover different types and domains of testing such as cross-browser testing, load testing, and mobile testing with Selenium. Finally, you will also be introduced to data-driven testing using TestNG to create your own automation framework. By the end of this book, you will be able to select any web application and automate it the way you want.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Firefox Driver

The implementation of Firefox Driver has been changed in Selenium 3.0. Starting with Firefox version 47.0+, we need to use separate a driver that will interact with the Firefox browser similarly to ChromeDriver. The new driver for Firefox is called Geckodriver.

The Geckodriver provides the HTTP API described by the W3C WebDriver Protocol to communicate with Gecko browsers, such as Firefox. It translates calls into the Firefox Remote Protocol (Marionette) by acting as a proxy between the local and remote ends.

Using GeckoDriver

In this section, we will see how to configure and use Geckodriver for Firefox in our tests. First of all, we need to download the Geckodriver executable from https://github.com/mozilla...