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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)

What about asynchronous scripts?

Everything that we have looked at so far has been a synchronous piece of JavaScript. However, what if we wanted to perform some asynchronous JavaScript calls as a part of our test? Well, we can do this. The JavascriptExecutor also has a method called executeAsyncScript(). This will allow you to run some JavaScript that does not respond instantly. Let's have a look at some examples.

First of all, we are going to write a very simple bit of JavaScript that will wait for 25 seconds before triggering a callback, as follows:

@Test
private void javascriptExample() {
driver.manage().timeouts().setScriptTimeout(60,
TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.executeAsyncScript("var callback =
arguments[arguments.length - 1];
window.setTimeout(callback, 25000);"
);
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
}

Note that we defined a JavaScript...