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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)

Edge Driver

Microsoft Edge is the latest web browser launched with Microsoft Windows 10. Microsoft Edge was one of the first browsers to implement the W3C WebDriver standard and provides built-in support for Selenium WebDriver.

Similar to Internet Explorer, in order to execute test scripts on the Microsoft Edge browser, we need to use the EdgeDriver class and a standalone Microsoft WebDriver Server executable. The Microsoft WebDriver Server is maintained by the Microsoft Edge development team. You can find more information at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-edge/webdriver

Writing your first test script for the Edge browser

Let's set up the Microsoft WebDriver Server and create a test for testing the search...