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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.

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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1
Introducing WebDriver and WebElements
Introducing WebDriver and WebElements
Selenium Testing Tools
Differences between Selenium 2 and Selenium 3
Setting up a project in Eclipse with Maven and TestNG using Java
WebElements
Locating WebElements using WebDriver
Interacting with WebElements
Summary
Questions
Further information
2
Different Available WebDrivers
Different Available WebDrivers
Firefox Driver
Chrome Driver
InternetExplorerDriver
Edge Driver
Safari Driver
Summary
Questions
Further information
3
Using Java 8 Features with Selenium
Using Java 8 Features with Selenium
Introducing Java 8 Stream API
Using Stream API with Selenium WebDriver
Summary
Questions
Further information
4
Exploring the Features of WebDriver
Exploring the Features of WebDriver
Taking screenshots
Locating target windows and Frames
Exploring Navigate
Waiting for WebElements to load
Handling cookies
Summary
Questions
Further information
5
Exploring Advanced Interactions of WebDriver
Exploring Advanced Interactions of WebDriver
Understanding the build and perform actions
Learning mouse based interactions
Learning keyboard-based interactions
Summary
Questions
Further information
6
Understanding WebDriver Events
Understanding WebDriver Events
Introducing the eventFiringWebDriver and eventListener classes
Creating an instance of EventListener
Exploring different WebDriver event listeners
Summary
Questions
Further information
7
Exploring RemoteWebDriver
Exploring RemoteWebDriver
Introducing RemoteWebDriver
Understanding the JSON wire protocol
Summary
Questions
Further information
8
Setting up Selenium Grid
Setting up Selenium Grid
Exploring Selenium Grid
Understanding the hub
Understanding the node
Modifying the existing test script to use Selenium Grid
Configuring Selenium Grid
Using cloud-based grids for cross-browser testing
Summary
Questions
Further information
9
The PageObject Pattern
The PageObject Pattern
Creating test cases for our WordPress blog
What is the PageObject pattern?
Good practices for the PageObjects design
Working on an end-to-end example of WordPress
Summary
Questions
Further information
10
Mobile Testing on iOS and Android using Appium
Mobile Testing on iOS and Android using Appium
Different forms of mobile applications
Available software tools
Automating iOS and Android tests using Appium
Summary
Questions
Further information
11
Data-Driven Testing with TestNG
Data-Driven Testing with TestNG
Overview of data-driven testing
Parameterizing Tests using suite parameters
Parameterizing Tests with a Data Provider
Summary
Questions
Further information
12
Assessments
Assessments
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
13
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Exploring Selenium Grid

Let's try to understand why we need Selenium Grid by analyzing a scenario. You have a web application that needs to be tested on the following browser-machine combinations:

  • Google Chrome on Windows 10
  • Google Chrome on macOS
  • Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10
  • Firefox on Linux

We can simply alter the test script we created in the previous chapter and point to the Selenium Standalone Server running on each of these combinations (that is, Windows 10, macOS, or Linux), as shown in the following code.

Windows 10: 

DesiredCapabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities();
caps.setBrowserName("chrome");
caps.setPlatform(Platform.WIN10);
WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://<win_10_ip>:4444/wd/hub"), capabilities);

macOS: 

DesiredCapabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities();
caps.setBrowserName("chrome");
caps...
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