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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

Implementing the Page Object model in Python


Implementing the Page Object model in Python is similar to what we have done previously in Java and C#. The Selenium WebDriver Python bindings provide support for objects of the Page Object model.

In this recipe, we will implement the Page Object model using Python bindings.

Getting ready

Before implementing the Page Object model for Python bindings, we must do the following:

  • Identify pages and the elements from the application that will be required in the tests

  • Define locators that will be needed to identify the elements uniquely

How to do it...

To implement the Page Object model in Python, follow these steps:

  1. Define a class for the Page Object model by creating a Python script with the name of the page. In this example, we will be creating a Page Object model for the main page of the BMI Calculator application, as follows:

    class BmiCalcPage(object):
        def __init__(self, driver):
            self._driver = driver
            self._url = ' http://cookbook.seleniumacademy...