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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)

Learning keyboard-based interactions

Until now, we have seen all the actions that can be taken using a mouse. Now it's time to look at some of the actions that are specific to the keyboard in the Actions class. Basically, there are three different actions that are available in the Actions class that are specific to the keyboard. They are the keyUp, keyDown, and sendKeys actions, each having two overloaded methods. One method is to execute the action directly on the WebElement, and the other is to just execute the method irrespective of its context.

The keyDown and keyUp actions

The keyDown() method is used to simulate the action of pressing and holding a key. The keys that we are referencing here are the Shift, Ctrl,...