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Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

By : Carl Cocchiaro
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Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

By: Carl Cocchiaro

Overview of this book

The Selenium WebDriver 3.x Technology is an open source API available to test both Browser and Mobile applications. It is completely platform independent in that tests built for one browser or mobile device, will also work on all other browsers and mobile devices. Selenium supports all major development languages which allow it to be tied directly into the technology used to develop the applications. This guide will provide a step-by-step approach to designing and building a data-driven test framework using Selenium WebDriver, Java, and TestNG. The book starts off by introducing users to the Selenium Page Object Design Patterns and D.R.Y Approaches to Software Development. In doing so, it covers designing and building a Selenium WebDriver framework that supports both Browser and Mobile Devices. It will lead the user through a journey of architecting their own framework with a scalable driver class, Java utility classes, JSON Data Provider, Data-Driven Test Classes, and support for third party tools and plugins. Users will learn how to design and build a Selenium Grid from scratch to allow the framework to scale and support different browsers, mobile devices, versions, and platforms, and how they can leverage third party grids in the Cloud like SauceLabs. Other topics covered include designing abstract base and sub-classes, inheritance, dual-driver support, parallel testing, testing multi-branded applications, best practices for using locators, and data encapsulation. Finally, you will be presented with a sample fully-functional framework to get them up and running with the Selenium WebDriver for browser testing. By the end of the book, you will be able to design your own automation testing framework and perform data-driven testing with Selenium WebDriver.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface

Summary


It is important to keep static utilities separate from the Selenium page object and test classes. This reduces duplicate code, allows users to maintain the framework utilities in a central location, and provides all users who use the framework for testing with a set of classes they can readily include in their tests.

The synchronization class is what makes the framework robust. If users do not synchronize the scripts, they will become unreliable, failing on different browsers, mobile devices, and platforms.

The test listeners, reporters, and image capture utilities provide a built-in mechanism for the framework to report the test results of suite runs. Users only have to include these classes in their test or suite file, and they automatically get TestNG results in the console, log, and HTML report formats.

Now that the Selenium driver and utility classes are built, it is time to talk about the Selenium page object classes. The next chapter will take a deep dive into that topic.