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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

By : UNMESH GUNDECHA
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Book Image

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

5 (1)
By: UNMESH GUNDECHA

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.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Web storage – testing local storage


HTML5 introduced a more secure and faster way of storing data locally within the user's browser from the web application. Previously, this was done with cookies. This data is not included with every server request, but used only when asked for. It is also possible to store large amounts of data without affecting the website's performance. The data is stored in key/value pairs, and a web application can only access data that is stored by itself.

HTML5 provides a localStorage interface through JavaScript that stores the data with no expiration date. The data will not be deleted when the browser is closed, and will be available at all times. You can view this data in Google Chrome by clicking on the Inspect Element | Resources tab.

Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Safari support web storage.

In this recipe, we will verify if a web page stores data in local storage as expected.

How to do it...

We will create a test that will verify that the web...