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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)

Should I inject JavaScript libraries?

It's very easy to inject JavaScript into a page, but stop and think before you do it. Adding lots of different JavaScript libraries may affect the existing functionality of the site. You may overwrite the existing functions with the same name and break the core functionality.

If you are testing a site, it may make all of your tests invalid. Failures may arise because there is a clash between the scripts that you inject and the existing scripts used on the site. The flip side is also true—injecting a script may make the functionality that is broken, work.

If you are going to inject scripts into an existing site, be sure that you know what the consequences are.

If you are going to regularly inject a script, it may be a good idea to add some assertions to ensure that the functions that you are injecting do not already exist before...