Selenium Essentials - Softcover

Sams, Prashanth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784394335 ISBN 13: 9781784394332

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Get to grips with automated web testing with the amazing power of Selenium WebDriver

About This Book

• Utilize Selenium WebDriver features for automation testing using outstanding techniques and strategies
• Learn how to build, customize, and maintain Selenium frameworks
• Packed with numerous practical examples, this book covers all the functions and commands that will help you grasp Selenium functions quickly

Who This Book Is For

If you are a developer who wants to migrate from Selenium RC or any other automation tool to Selenium WebDriver, then this book is for you. Knowledge of automation tools is necessary to follow the examples in this book.

What You Will Learn

• Handle the Selenium IDE and Builder features efficiently
• Integrate JavaScript with the Selenium IDE
• Practice cross-browser testing in your favorite browser
• Run automated Selenium WebDriver tests on different cloud servers
• Go through all the Selenium WebDriver functions
• Discover how to handle the features not supported by Selenium WebDriver
• Observe various testing techniques using available frameworks
• Develop your own Selenium framework for well-organized web application testing

In Detail

This book will help you seamlessly migrate from Selenium RC to Selenium WebDriver. You will be able to quickly develop automated tests with little effort. Based on popularity, support, and usage, the scripts throughout the book are in Java.

We will start off by familiarizing you with the Selenium IDE, teaching you its functions, and using it to automate and debug a complex website. Next, we will harness the power of Selenium WebDriver to perform cross-browser automation tests. We will then go to the next level and run automation tests on the cloud. After this, we will cover a wide range of functions provided by the Selenium WebDriver API that can be used for effective web automation tests. Finally, you will learn how to perform Data-Driven and Behavior-Driven tests.

About this title

About the Author

Prashanth Sams

Prashanth Sams is a test automation engineer contributing to the IT industry since 2011. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in information technology from Anna University and lives in Chennai, India, with his family. He started his career as a human resource executive. Later, he worked at an HR outsourcing (US recruiting) company that operates in Chennai. He is very passionate about test automation and has chosen to be a professional software engineer. He is an active blogger and a moderator for http://seleniumworks.blogspot.in/, a blog about Selenium, and is a great supporter of the Selenium Community, responding diligently to questions and answers over professional networks. He loves emerging technologies with soft skills development and spends 14 to 16 hours a day on them. In a short span of time, he has gained rich experience in various projects, handling different automation tools. Prashanth's Twitter handle is @prashanthsams.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784394335
• ISBN 13: 9781784394332
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194