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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

Appium server and mobile simulator/emulator command-line options


The mobile device simulator and emulator nodes work basically the same as the browser nodes on the Selenium Grid. You need to build a bash or PowerShell script to start the Appium server, and in the case of the Android emulator, there is a command-line option to start the emulator. The Appium driver for the iPhone will launch the correct iPhone/iPad simulator and close it when complete.

Let's look at a couple of sample scripts and configuration files to start up the mobile device nodes.

Appium nodes

Appium has an environment setup procedure for setting up the iPhone Xcode SDK and Android SDK, along with the required simulators and emulators.

Note

The Appium setup instructions are located at http://appium.io.

Of course, Java 8+ must also be installed, as was done for the browser nodes, and the Appium server needs to be installed in the /opt/selenium (macOS and Linux) or C:\appium (Windows) directory.

Node.js and npm are also required...