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Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide - Second Edition

By : Pallavi Sharma, UNMESH GUNDECHA, Satya Avasarala
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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)

Waiting for WebElements to load

If you have a previous UI automation experience, I'm sure you would have come across a situation where your test script couldn't find an element on the web page because the web page was still loading. This could happen due to various reasons. One classic example is when the application server or web server is serving the page too slowly due to resource constraints; the other could be when you are accessing the page on a very slow network. The reason could be that the element on the web page is not loaded by the time your test script tries to find it. This is where you have to calculate and configure the average wait time for your test scripts to wait for WebElements to load on the web page.

WebDriver provides test-script developers with a very handy feature to manage wait time. Wait time is the time your driver will wait for the WebElement...