Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide - Second Edition

Real-world examples of cross-browser, mobile, and data-driven testing with all the latest features of Selenium WebDriver 3

Key Features

• Unlock the full potential of Selenium to test your web applications
• Use Selenium Grid for faster, parallel running, and cross-browser testing
• Test iOS and Android Apps with Appium

Book Description

Selenium WebDriver is an open source automation tool implemented through a browser-specific driver, which sends commands to a browser and retrieves results. The latest version of Selenium 3 brings with it a lot of new features that change the way you use and setup Selenium WebDriver. This book covers all those features along with the source code, including a demo website that allows you to work with an HMTL5 application and other examples throughout the book.

Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide will walk you through the various APIs of Selenium WebDriver, which are used in automation tests, followed by a discussion of the various WebDriver implementations available. You will learn to strategize and handle rich web UI using advanced WebDriver API along with real-time challenges faced in WebDriver and solutions to handle them. You will discover different types and domains of testing such as cross-browser testing, load testing, and mobile testing with Selenium. Finally, you will also be introduced to data-driven testing using TestNG to create your own automation framework.

By the end of this book, you will be able to select any web application and automate it the way you want.

What you will learn

• Understand what Selenium 3 is and how is has been improved than its predecessor
• Use different mobile and desktop browser platforms with Selenium 3
• Perform advanced actions, such as drag-and-drop and action builders on web page
• Learn to use Java 8 API and Selenium 3 together
• Explore remote WebDriver and discover how to use it
• Perform cross browser and distributed testing with Selenium Grid
• Use Actions API for performing various keyboard and mouse actions

Who this book is for

Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide is for software quality assurance/testing professionals, software project managers, or software developers interested in using Selenium for testing their applications. Prior programming experience in Java is necessary.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing WebDriver and WebElements
2. Working with Browser Drivers
3. Using Java 8 features along with Selenium
4. Exploring the Features of WebDriver
5. Exploring Advanced Interactions of WebDriver
6. Understanding WebDriver Events
7. Exploring RemoteWebDriver
8. Setting up Selenium Grid
9. The PageObject Pattern
10. Mobile Testing on iOS and Android using Appium
11. Data Driven Testing with TestNG
12. Assessments

Unmesh Gundecha has over 16 years, experience in Agile software development, test automation, and DevOps methodologies. He is an Agile, open source, and DevOps evangelist with extensive experience in a diverse set of tools and technologies. He has extensive hands-on experience in building sustainable and repeatable test automation solutions for web and mobile platforms, APIs, and CLI apps with continuous integration and delivery pipelines, using best-of-breed open source and commercial tools to do so. He is the author of Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook and Learning Selenium Testing Tools with Python, both by Packt Publishing.

Satya Avasarala has rich experience in Java development and automation testing. He is an engineer in computer science. He has used WebDriver for many years now and has created several good automation frameworks. He has worked at various large software enterprises such as Oracle Corp, Yahoo! Inc., VMware Inc., and the REA Group.

In addition, he is also interested in Service Oriented Architectural design and Business Intelligence. He is an Oracle-certified Service Oriented Architecture Infrastructure Implementation Expert and a Business Intelligence Foundation Suite Implementation Specialist.