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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

Selenium Grid console


The Selenium Grid Architecture also provides a grid console page that allows users to view which nodes are active, available, down, and what capabilities are set for each of them. Once the Selenium hub is active and running, the user would load the following URL to view the grid:

http://127.0.0.1:4444/grid/console

Of course, this is the localhost IP address, and you would substitute the DNS name or IP address of the real Selenium hub VM in this URL.

The following is a screenshot of a local grid set up to run Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and iPhone nodes on a macOS platform. Yes, you can actually run the hub, nodes, and Appium server on the same VM, but this would cause memory issues in the long run, so it's better to separate them! As a matter of fact, users can set up a local Selenium Grid in their development environment to test out the driver class, configuration files, batch files, and so on:

Selenium Grid console hub configuration

In this grid console, you can see...