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Selenium WebDriver Quick Start Guide

By : Pinakin Chaubal
Book Image

Selenium WebDriver Quick Start Guide

By: Pinakin Chaubal

Overview of this book

Selenium WebDriver is a platform-independent API for automating the testing of both browser and mobile applications. It is also a core technology in many other browser automation tools, APIs, and frameworks. This book will guide you through the WebDriver APIs that are used in automation tests. Chapter by chapter, we will construct the building blocks of a page object model framework as you learn about the required Java and Selenium methods and terminology. The book starts with an introduction to the same-origin policy, cross-site scripting dangers, and the Document Object Model (DOM). Moving ahead, we'll learn about XPath, which allows us to select items on a page, and how to design a customized XPath. After that, we will be creating singleton patterns and drivers. Then you will learn about synchronization and handling pop-up windows. You will see how to create a factory for browsers and understand command design patterns applicable to this area. At the end of the book, we tie all this together by creating a framework and implementing multi-browser testing with Selenium Grid.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

This chapter explored basic Selenium commands. We learned what method signatures are and came to understand the concept of List in java. We also learnt the frequently used methods in Selenium and created some reusable methods. The basic difference between quit() and close() was covered as well. We then had a look at what a Keyword-driven Framework was and what Maps are. The framework that we are going to design in the upcoming chapters was looked at from a bird's eye view. From this, we learned what Log4J and ExtentReports are.

In the next chapter, we will take a small diversion and look at two of the important concepts in Framework design: "Popups" and "Alerts". We will come to understand the concept of window handle. We will look at sets and arrays of window handles. We will write code to enter data in a pop-up form. In this process, we will...