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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

Synchronizing a test with custom-expected conditions


With the explicit wait mechanism, we can also build custom-expected conditions along with common conditions using the ExpectedConditions class. This comes in handy when a wait cannot be handled with a common condition supported by the ExpectedConditions class.

In this recipe, we will explore how to create a custom condition.

How to do it...

We will create a test that will create a wait until an element appears on the page using the ExpectedCondition class as follows:

@Test
public void testExplicitWait() {

  WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
  // Launch the sample Ajax application
  driver.get("http://cookbook.seleniumacademy.com/AjaxDemo.html");

  try {
    driver.findElement(By.linkText("Page 4")).click();
    WebElement message = new WebDriverWait(driver, 5)
        .until(new ExpectedCondition<WebElement>() {
          public WebElement apply(WebDriver d) {
            return d.findElement(By.id("page4"));
          }
   ...