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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

Running tests in headless mode with PhantomJS


PhantomJS is a headless Webkit-based browser. We can use PhantomJS in conjunction with Selenium WebDriver to run basic functional tests.

In this recipe, we will set up and use PhantomJS to run a simple test.

Getting ready

You will need PhantomJS binary for this example. You can download the appropriate binary from http://phantomjs.org/.

In this example, the Windows version of PhantomJS is used.

You will also need to add a dependency in the maven pom.xml file, as follows:

  <dependency>
      <groupId>com.github.detro</groupId>
      <artifactId>phantomjsdriver</artifactId>
      <version>1.2.0</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

How to do it...

Let's create a new test PhantomjsTest that uses PhantomJS to run a test in headless mode, as shown in the following code example:

package com.secookbook.examples.chapter13;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import static org.testng...