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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

By : UNMESH GUNDECHA
Book Image

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

By: UNMESH GUNDECHA

Overview of this book

Web technologies are becoming increasingly complex and there is a need to test your web applications against a vast number of browsers and platforms, so you need to build highly reliable and maintainable test automation. This book will help you test your web applications effectively and efficiently with Selenium WebDriver."Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook" is an incremental guide that will help you learn and use advanced features of Selenium WebDriver API in various situations for building reliable test automation. You will learn how to effectively use features of Selenium using simple and detailed examples. This book will also teach you best practices, design patterns, and how to extend Selenium."Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook" shows developers and testers who already use Selenium, how to go to the next step and build a highly maintainable and reliable test framework using advanced features of the tool.The book starts with tips on advanced location strategy and effective use of Selenium WebDriver API. Then it demonstrates the use of design patterns such as Data Driven Tests and PageFactory for building maintainable test automation. It also explains extending Selenium WebDriver API along with implementing custom tasks and setting up your own distributed environment to run tests in parallel.It concludes with tips on integrating Selenium WebDriver with other popular tools, testing mobile web applications, and capturing videos of test runs. This books provides examples in Java, C#, Ruby, and Python."Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook" will help you in building a highly robust and maintainable test automation framework from start to finish.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up the Android emulator for Selenium


Similar to the iOS simulator, the Android emulator enables you to test your applications without using an actual Android device, whether it is any Android-based phone or tablet. The Android emulator also has the capability of simulating different versions of Android, and this becomes extremely useful if your application needs to be installed on different Android versions.

We need to set up the Android server APK for Selenium to test web applications on the Android platform.

The Android server APK is developed as an Android application using Java/Jetty. The Android server APK application implements the RemoteWebDriver server for the test code to run on the Android platform. It is supported on both the emulator and the real device. In this recipe, we will see how to download and configure the Android server APK on the Android emulator.

Getting ready

Before setting up the Android emulator for Selenium to run tests, we need to set up the Android development...