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Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools: Beginner's Guide

By : David Burns
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Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools: Beginner's Guide

By: David Burns

Overview of this book

<p>Selenium is a suite of tools to automate web application testing across many platforms. A strong understanding of using Selenium will get you developing tests to ensure the quality of your applications.</p> <p>This book helps you understand and use Selenium to create tests and make sure that what your user expects to do can be done. It will guide you to successfully implement Selenium tests to ensure the quality of your applications.</p> <p>The Selenium Testing Tools Beginner’s guide shows developers and testers how to create automated tests using a browser. You'll be able to create tests using Selenium IDE, Selenium Remote Control and Selenium 2 as well. A chapter is completely dedicated to Selenium 2. We will then see how our tests use element locators such as css, xpath, DOM to find elements on the page.</p> <p>Once all the tests have been created we will have a look at how we can speed up the execution of our tests using Selenium Grid.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Chapter 3 – Pattern Matching


  • Does exact: allows capitalization differences?

    • Answer: False

  • Does exact: only work on text in links?

    • Answer: No, it can be used on any elements that have test

  • What will the * item in a glob pattern do for goog*?

    • Answer: It will do a wildcard match to find anything that has 'goog' as its first four letters.

  • What will the ? item do in the glob patter ?ool ?

    • Answer: It will match any words that are four characters long and the last three letters are 'ool'

  • What is the best way to check if a word is three characters long?

    • Answer: \w{3}

  • What is the way to add wild cards to a regular expression?

    • Answer: Use the . in the regular expression