Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

By : UNMESH GUNDECHA

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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

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By: UNMESH GUNDECHA

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Overview of this book

This book is an incremental guide that will help you learn and use the advanced features of the Selenium toolset including the WebDriver API in various situations to build a reliable test automation. You start off by setting up the test development environment and gain tips on the advanced locater strategy and the effective use of the Selenium WebDriver API. After that, the use of design patterns such as data - driven tests and PageFactory are demonstrated. You will then be familiarised with extending Selenium WebDriver API by implementing custom tasks and setting up your own distributed environment to run tests in parallel for cross-browser testing. Finally, we give you some tips on integrating Selenium WebDriver with other popular tools and testing mobile applications. By the end of this book, you will have learned enough to solve complex testing issues on your own.

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Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started

Introduction

Configuring the Selenium WebDriver test development environment for Java with Eclipse and Maven

Using Ant for the Selenium WebDriver test execution

Configuring Microsoft Visual Studio for Selenium WebDriver test development

Configuring Selenium WebDriver for Python and Ruby

Setting up Internet Explorer Driver Server

Setting up ChromeDriver for Google Chrome

Setting up Microsoft WebDriver for Microsoft Edge

Finding Elements

Introduction

Using browser tools for inspecting elements and page structure

Finding an element using the findElement method

Finding elements using the findElements method

Finding links

Finding elements by tag name

Finding elements using XPath

Finding elements using CSS selectors

Locating elements using text

Finding elements using advanced CSS selectors

Using jQuery selectors

Working with Elements

Introduction

Automating textboxes, text areas, and buttons

Checking an element's text

Checking an element's attribute and CSS values

Automating dropdowns and lists

Checking options in the Select element

Checking selected options in dropdowns and lists

Automating radio buttons and radio groups

Automating checkboxes

Working with WebTables

Working with Selenium API

Introduction

Checking an element's presence

Checking an element's state

Using Advanced User Interactions API for mouse and keyboard events

Performing double-click on an element

Performing drag-and-drop operations

Working with context menus

Executing the JavaScript code

Capturing screenshots with Selenium WebDriver

Maximizing the browser window

Handling session cookies

Working with browser navigation

Working with WebDriver events

Synchronizing Tests

Introduction

Synchronizing a test with an implicit wait

Synchronizing a test with an explicit wait

Synchronizing a test with custom-expected conditions

Synchronizing a test with FluentWait

Working with Alerts, Frames, and Windows

Introduction

Handling a simple JavaScript alert box

Handling a confirm and prompt alert box

Identifying and handling frames

Working with IFRAME

Identifying and handling a child window

Identifying and handling a window by its title

Identifying and handling a pop-up window by its content

Data-Driven Testing

Introduction

Creating a data-driven test using JUnit

Creating a data-driven test using TestNG

Reading test data from a CSV file using JUnit

Reading test data from an Excel file using JUnit and Apache POI

Creating a data-driven test in NUnit

Creating a data-driven test in MSTEST

Creating a data-driven test in Ruby using Roo

Creating a data-driven test in Python using DDT

Using the Page Object Model

Introduction

Using the PageFactory class for exposing the elements on a page

Using the PageFactory class for exposing an operation on a page

Using the LoadableComponent class

Implementing nested Page Object instances

Implementing the Page Object model in .NET

Implementing the Page Object model in Python

Implementing the Page Object model in Ruby using the page-object gem

Extending Selenium

Introduction

Creating an extension class for web tables

Creating an extension for the jQueryUI tab widget

Implementing an extension for the WebElement object to set the element attribute values

Implementing an extension for the WebElement object to highlight elements

Creating an object map for Selenium tests

Capturing screenshots of elements in the Selenium WebDriver

Comparing images in Selenium

Measuring performance with the Navigation Timing API

Testing HTML5 Web Applications

Introduction

Automating the HTML5 video player

Automating interaction on the HTML5 canvas element

Web storage – testing local storage

Web storage – testing session storage

Cleaning local and session storage

Behavior-Driven Development

Introduction

Using Cucumber-JVM and Selenium WebDriver in Java for BDD

Using SpecFlow.NET and Selenium WebDriver in .NET for BDD

Using Capybara, Cucumber, and Selenium WebDriver in Ruby

Using Behave and Selenium WebDriver in Python

Integration with Other Tools

Introduction

Configuring Jenkins for continuous integration

Using Jenkins and Maven for Selenium WebDriver test execution in continuous integration

Using Ant for Selenium WebDriver test execution

Using Jenkins and Ant for Selenium WebDriver test execution in continuous integration

Automating a non-web UI in Selenium WebDriver with AutoIt

Automating a non-web UI in Selenium WebDriver with Sikuli

Cross-Browser Testing

Introduction

Setting up Selenium Grid Server for parallel execution

Adding nodes to Selenium Grid for cross-browser testing

Creating and executing the Selenium script in parallel with TestNG

Creating and executing the Selenium script in parallel with Python

Using Cloud tools for cross-browser testing running tests in the Cloud

Running tests in headless mode with PhantomJS

Testing Applications on Mobile Browsers

Introduction

Setting up Appium for testing mobile applications

Testing mobile web applications on iOS using Appium

Testing mobile web applications on Android using Appium

Index

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Using Ant for the Selenium WebDriver test execution

Apache Ant is a popular build tool available for Java developers. It is similar to Apache Maven, but does not support project management and dependency management features like Maven. It's a pure build tool.

You can run Selenium WebDriver tests using Ant via command line or through continuous integration (CI) tools such as Jenkins.

In this recipe, we will add Ant support to the SeleniumCookbook project created in the Configuring Selenium WebDriver test development environment for Java with Eclipse and Maven recipe.

Getting ready

You can also download and configure Ant from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi for other OS platforms.

Windows users can download and install WinAnt on Windows. WinAnt comes with an installer that will configure Ant through the installer. The WinAnt installer is available at http://code.google.com/p/winant/.

This recipe uses WinAnt on the Windows OS.

You will also need Selenium WebDriver and JUnit JAR files. You can download Selenium JAR file from http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/ and JUnit JAR file from https://github.com/junit-team/junit/wiki/Download-and-Install.

How to do it...

Let's set up the SeleniumCookbook created in the previous recipe project for Ant with the following steps:

Create a lib folder and copy the JAR files for the dependencies used for this project, that is, Selenium WebDriver and JUnit, to the lib folder, as shown in screenshot below:

Create the build.xml file in the project folder with the following XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="test" default="exec" basedir=".">

    <property name="src" value="./src" />
    <property name="lib" value="./lib" />
    <property name="bin" value="./bin" />
    <property name="report" value="./report" />
    <path id="test.classpath">
        <pathelement location="${bin}" />
        <fileset dir="${lib}">
            <include name="**/*.jar" />
        </fileset>
    </path>

    <target name="init">
        <delete dir="${bin}" />
        <mkdir dir="${bin}" />
    </target>

    <target name="compile" depends="init">
        <javac source="1.8" srcdir="${src}" fork="true"
            destdir="${bin}" >
            <classpath>
                <pathelement path="${bin}" />
                <fileset dir="${lib}">
                  <include name="**/*.jar" />
                </fileset>
            </classpath>
        </javac>
    </target>

    <target name="exec" depends="compile">
        <delete dir="${report}" />
        <mkdir dir="${report}" />
            <mkdir dir="${report}/xml" />
        <junit printsummary="yes" haltonfailure="no">
            <classpath>
                <pathelement location="${bin}" />
                <fileset dir="${lib}">
                    <include name="**/*.jar" />
                </fileset>
            </classpath>

            <test name="com.secookbook.examples.chapter1.GoogleSearchTest"
                haltonfailure="no" todir="${report}/xml"
                outfile="TEST-result">
                <formatter type="xml" />
            </test>
        </junit>
        <junitreport todir="${report}">
            <fileset dir="${report}/xml">
                <include name="TEST*.xml" />
            </fileset>
            <report format="frames"
                todir="${report}/html" />
        </junitreport>
    </target>
</project>

Navigate to the project directory through the command line and type the following command:
```
ant
```
This will trigger the build process. You will see the test running. At the end, Ant will create a report folder in the project folder. Navigate to the html subfolder in the report folder and open the index.html file to view the results.

How it works...

Ant needs a build.xml file with all the configurations and steps required to build the project. We can add steps for report generation, sending e-mail notification, and so on to build.xml. Ant provides a very dynamic framework for defining steps in the build process.

Ant also needs the necessary library/JAR files to be copied in the lib folder, which are needed for building the project.

Ant scans for the complete set of tests in the project and executes these tests in a way similar to Maven.

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

By : UNMESH GUNDECHA

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

By: UNMESH GUNDECHA

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