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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)

Understanding WebDriver Events

Selenium WebDriver provides an API for tracking the various events that happen when test scripts are executed using WebDriver. Many navigation events get fired before and after a WebDriver internal event occurs (such as before and after navigating to a URL, and before and after browser back-navigation) and these can be tracked and captured. To throw an event, WebDriver gives you a class named EventFiringWebDriver, and to catch that event, it provides the test-script developer with an interface named WebDriverEventListener. The test-script developer should provide its own implementations for the overridden methods from the interface. In this chapter, we will look at the following topics:

  • How to listen to and handle various browser-navigation events by using EventFiringWebDriver
  • How to listen to and handle web-element action events that get triggered...