When first designing the Selenium Grid, users must decide whether they want to use physical machines or virtual machines. In this day and age of cloud computing, most users are going with a virtual grid of some sort, using either Amazon Web Services, VMware, or the Microsoft Azure Cloud Services. With mobile devices, users can test against iPhone simulators running on macOS VMs, and Android emulators running on Linux and MS-Windows VMs. To connect to the remote VM node, users can use VMware vCloud Director, Apple Remote Desktop Client, Remote Desktop Client for Windows or Linux, RealVNC, and so on.When running tests remotely on a grid, the test always starts on either a local IDE or a Jenkins Slave of some sort. The actual browser or mobile device will start on the remote node itself, not on the local VM or the Jenkins Slave. The Selenium WebDriver events will be sent from those clients to the remote hub, which will then redirect the events to the appropriate platform, start...
Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing
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Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing
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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
Free Chapter
Building a Scalable Selenium Test Driver Class for Web and Mobile Applications
Selenium Framework Utility Classes
Best Practices for Building Selenium Page Object Classes
Defining WebDriver and AppiumDriver Page Object Elements
Building a JSON Data Provider
Developing Data-Driven Test Classes
Encapsulating Data in Data-Driven Testing
Designing a Selenium Grid
Third-Party Tools and Plugins
Working Selenium WebDriver Framework Samples
Customer Reviews