Learn Selenium

Build data-driven test frameworks for mobile and web applications with Selenium Web Driver 3

Unmesh Gundecha, Carl Cocchiaro

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781838985554
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Quality Assurance & Testing
• Index: Computer Science

Learn end-to-end automation testing techniques for web and mobile browsers using Selenium WebDriver, AppiumDriver, Java, and TestNG

Key Features

• Explore the Selenium grid architecture and build your own grid for browser and mobile devices
• Use ExtentReports for processing results and SauceLabs for cloud-based test services
• Unlock the full potential of Selenium to test your web applications.

Book Description

Selenium WebDriver 3.x is an open source API for testing both browser and mobile applications. With the help of this book, you can build a solid foundation and can easily perform end-to-end testing on web and mobile browsers.You'll begin by being introduced to the Selenium Page Object Model for software development. You'll architect your own framework with a scalable driver class, Java utility classes, and support for third-party tools and plugins. You'll design and build a Selenium grid from scratch to enable the framework to scale and support different browsers, mobile devices, and platforms.You'll strategize and handle a rich web UI using the advanced WebDriver API and learn techniques to handle real-time challenges in WebDriver. You'll perform different types of testing, such as cross-browser testing, load testing, and mobile testing. Finally, you will also be introduced to data-driven testing, using TestNG to create your own automation framework.By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to design your own automation testing framework and perform data-driven testing with Selenium WebDriver.

This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:

• Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide - Second Edition by Unmesh Gundecha
• Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing by Carl Cocchiaro

What you will learn

• Use different mobile and desktop browser platforms with Selenium 3
• Use the Actions API for performing various keyboard and mouse actions
• Design the Selenium Driver Class for local, remote, and third-party grid support
• Build page object classes with the Selenium Page Object Model
• Develop data-driven test classes using the TestNG framework
• Encapsulate data using the JSON protocol
• Build a Selenium Grid for RemoteWebDriver testing
• Build and use utility classes in synchronization, file I/O, reporting and test listener classes

Who this book is for

This Learning Path is ideal for software quality assurance/testing professionals, software project managers, or software developers interested in using Selenium for testing their applications. Professionals responsible for designing and building enterprise-based testing frameworks will also find this Learning Path useful. Prior programming experience in Java are TestNG is necessary.

Working Selenium WebDriver Framework Samples

This final chapter of the book is a working sample framework containing a driver class, required utility classes, browser page object classes, a browser test class, and JSON data files. The sample files will demonstrate the standards and best practices outlined in this book using the Selenium Page Object Model and DRY approaches to data-driven testing. The sample tests can be run in the IntelliJ or Eclipse IDE and contain the following components:

• Selenium driver and DataProvider classes
• Selenium utility classes
• ExtentReports classes
• Browser page object base and subclasses
• Browser test class and data files
• Browser suite XML and Maven POM XML files

Introduction

This final chapter is a working set of sample classes to demonstrate some of the best practices and standards that were discussed in this book. Users should be able to take the sample classes and run them in their own IDE after setting up their Selenium development environment.

The samples were built using Chrome, Firefox, and IE11 browsers. Users should download the latest Selenium 3.x JAR files, TestNG JAR files, and the required browser driver releases to support them. The following JARs and files are required to get the sample tests running:

• Java 1.8 SDK and JRE
• IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3
• Selenium 3.7.1 WebDriver JARs
• TestNG 6.11 JARs
• ExtentReports 3.1.0 JARs
• ChromeDriver.exe 2.33 (Windows 32-bit; there is no current 64-bit driver)
• Firefox GeckoDriver.exe 0.19.1 (Windows 64-bit)
• IEDriverServer.exe 3.7.1 (Windows 32-bit; runs faster than the 64-bit driver)
• Chrome browser 62.0
• Firefox browser 57.0
• Internet Explorer browser 11.0

Users must place the files in a project folder in their IDE and change the paths in the selenium.properties and Global_VARS.java files to point to the correct package and driver locations. The sample framework and tests were built and tested using IntelliJ IDE on a Windows platform, but can be run on Linux or macOS as well; they are completely platform independent.

If you create the following package structure in IntelliJ, in a project called SeleniumFrameworkDesign, and add this chapter's files to it, then none of the imports or global variables need to be changed: src/main/java/com/framework/ux/utils/chapter10. Also, create the following folders for the drivers and test output: SeleniumFrameworkDesign/drivers and SeleniumFrameworkDesign/test-output.

The sample framework files were built using this open source practice website: http://www.practiceselenium.com/. It is developed by Selenium Framework 2010–2017 Copyrights reserved.

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Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contributors
• About Packt
• Preface
• Introducing WebDriver and WebElements
• Using Java 8 Features with Selenium
• Exploring the Features of WebDriver
• Exploring Advanced Interactions of WebDriver
• Understanding WebDriver Events
• Exploring RemoteWebDriver
• Setting up Selenium Grid
• Data-Driven Testing with TestNG
• Building a Scalable Selenium Test Driver Class for Web and Mobile Applications
• Selenium Framework Utility Classes
• Best Practices for Building Selenium Page Object Classes
• Defining WebDriver and AppiumDriver Page Object Elements
• Building a JSON Data Provider
• Developing Data-Driven Test Classes
• Encapsulating Data in Data-Driven Testing
• Designing a Selenium Grid
• Third-Party Tools and Plugins
• Working Selenium WebDriver Framework Samples
• Assessments
• Other Books You May Enjoy