Increase the performance, capability, and reliability of your automated checks by mastering Selenium WebDriver
Key Features
- Create an extensible test framework supporting parallel execution with TestNG
- Understand the power, simplicity, and limitations of the core Selenium framework
- Write clear, simple, readable, and reliable tests that perform complex test automation tasks
Book Description
Selenium WebDriver, also known as Selenium 2, is a UI automation tool used by software developers and QA engineers to test their web applications on different web browsers. The Selenium WebDriver API is fully object oriented compared with the deprecated Selenium RC. The WebDriver API provides multi-language support and run tests on all the most popular browsers.
In this wide and complex World Wide Web era, this book will teach you how to tame it by gaining an in-depth understanding of the Selenium API.
This book starts with how to solve the difficult problems that you will undoubtedly come across as you start using Selenium in an enterprise environment, followed by producing the right feedback when failing, and what the common exceptions are, explain them properly (including the root cause) and tell you how to fix them. You will also see the differences between the three available implicit waits and explicit waits, and learn to working with effective page objects.
Moving on, the book shows you how to utilize the Advanced User Interactions API, how you can run any JavaScript you need through Selenium, and how to quickly spin up a Selenium Grid using Docker containers.
At the end, the book will discuss the upcoming Selenium W3C specification and how it is going to affect the future of Selenium.
What you will learn
- Provide fast, useful feedback with sensible errors and screenshots
- Create extensible, well-composed page objects
- Gain an in-depth understanding of implicit and explicit waits, and how you should use them
- Leverage the full power of the Actions API
- Explore the full potential of the JavascriptExecutor
- Extend Selenium's capabilities by integrating other applications
- Learn how to plug third-party products into Selenium, and where it is appropriate to do so
Mark Collin is a professional software tester who has been working in the software testing industry since 2001. He started his career in the financial sector before moving in consultancy. As a consultant, he has had the privilege of working on numerous projects in many different sectors for various large and well-known companies. This has allowed him to gain an eclectic range of skills and proficiencies, which include test automation, security and penetration testing, and performance testing. He loves technology and is always exploring new and exciting technology stacks to see how they can enhance the capability and reliability of automated checks. He is fully aware that though automation is good, at the moment, nothing can replace the human mind when it comes to having a well-rounded test solution. He is a great believer in open source technology and spends a lot of time contributing towards open source projects. He is the creator and maintainer of the driver-binary-downloader-maven-plugin, which allows Maven to download ChromeDriver, OperaDriver, the IE driver, and PhantomJS to your machine as a part of a standard Maven build. He is also a core contributor to the jmeter-maven-plugin, a tool that allows you to run JMeter tests through Maven. Mark has also contributed code to the core Selenium code base.
