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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

By : UNMESH GUNDECHA
5 (1)
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

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


Jenkins supports Maven for building and testing a project in continuous integration. In this recipe, we will set up Jenkins to run tests from a Maven project.

Getting ready

Running tests with Jenkins and Maven needs both the tools installed on the machine. In this recipe, the SeleniumCookbook project is used from the earlier Configuring Eclipse and Maven for Selenium WebDriver test development recipe.

This recipe refers to Subversion as the Source Code Management (SCM) tool for the SeleniumCookbook project.

You can use various SCM tools along with Jenkins. If Jenkins does not support the SCM tool that you are using, please check the Jenkins plugin directory for specific SCM tool plugins.

How to do it...

  1. Navigate to the Jenkins Dashboard (http://localhost:8080 by default) in the browser window.

  2. On Jenkins Dashboard, click on the New Job link to create a CI job.

  3. Enter Selenium Cookbook in the Job name textbox.

  4. Select...