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Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition

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Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition

Overview of this book

The second edition of Mastering Selenium 3.0 WebDriver starts by showing you how to build your own Selenium framework with Maven. You'll then look at how you can solve the difficult problems that you will undoubtedly come across as you start using Selenium in an enterprise environment and learn how to produce the right feedback when failing. Next, you’ll explore common exceptions that you will come across as you use Selenium, the root causes of these exceptions, and how to fix them. Along the way, you’ll use Advanced User Interactions APIs, running any JavaScript you need through Selenium; and learn how to quickly spin up a Selenium Grid using Docker containers. In the concluding chapters, you‘ll work through a series of scenarios that demonstrate how to extend Selenium to work with external libraries and applications so that you can be sure you are using the right tool for the job.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary

After reading this chapter, you will hopefully no longer think of automated checks as regression tests; instead you should think of them as living documentation that continues to grow and flourish as the code they are validating changes. When things go wrong you will be able to take screenshots to aid diagnosis, as well as being able to fluently read stack traces. You will know how to connect your tests to a Selenium-Grid to provide additional flexibility. Finally, you will also have a good understanding of why reliability matters and how this feeds into successful continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment.

In the next chapter, we are going to have a look at exceptions generated by Selenium. We will work through various exceptions that you may see and what they mean.