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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

Name: Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook
Author: Unmesh Gundecha

Unmesh Gundecha,

326 pages
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eBook - ePub

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

Unmesh Gundecha,

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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.

Approach

This is a cookbook packed with code examples and step-by-step instructions to ease your learning curve.

Who this book is for

This book is intended for software quality assurance/testing professionals, software project managers, or software developers with prior experience in using Selenium and Java for testing web-based applications. This book also provides examples for C#, Python, and Ruby users.

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Publisher

Packt Publishing

Year

2012

ISBN

9781849515740

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Topic

Computer Science

Subtopic

Computer Science General

Index

Computer Science

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Locating Elements

Introduction

Using browser tools for inspecting elements and page structure

How to do it...

How it works...

Locating an element using the findElement method

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Locating elements using findElements method

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Locating links

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Locating elements by tag name

How to do it...

How it works...

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Locating elements using CSS selectors

How to do it...

Performing partial match on attribute values

How it works...

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Locating elements using XPath

How to do it...

How it works...

Locating elements using text

How to do it...

How it works...

Locating elements using advanced CSS selectors

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using jQuery selectors

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Locating table rows and cells

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

See also

Locating child elements in a table

How to do it...

How it works...

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2. Working with Selenium API

Introduction

Checking an element's text

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Checking an element's attribute values

How to do it...

How it works...

Checking an element's CSS values

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using Advanced User Interactions API for mouse and keyboard events

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Performing double-click on an element

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Performing drag-and-drop operations

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Executing JavaScript code

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Capturing screenshots with Selenium WebDriver

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Capturing screenshots with RemoteWebDriver/Grid

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Maximizing the browser window

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Automating dropdowns and lists

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Checking options in dropdowns and lists

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Checking selected options in dropdowns and lists

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Automating radio buttons and radio groups

How to do it...

How it works...

Automating checkboxes

How to do it...

How it works...

Controlling Windows processes

How to do it...

How it works...

Reading a Windows registry value from Selenium WebDriver

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Modifying a Windows registry value from Selenium WebDriver

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

3. Controlling the Test Flow

Introduction

Pop ups and Alerts

Synchronizing a test with an implicit wait

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Synchronizing a test with an explicit wait

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Synchronizing a test with custom-expected conditions

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Waiting for element's attribute value update

Waiting for an element's visibility

Waiting for DOM events

Checking an element's presence

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Checking an element's status

How to do it...

How it works...

Identifying and handling a pop-up window by its name

How to do it...

How it works...

There is more...

NoSuchWindowException

See also

Identifying and handling a pop-up window by its title

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Identifying and handling a pop-up window by its content

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Handling a simple JavaScript alert

How to do it...

How it works...

There is more...

NoAlertPresentException

See also

Handling a confirm box alert

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Handling a prompt box alert

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Identifying and handling frames

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Identifying and handling frames by their content

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Working with IFRAME

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

4. Data-driven Testing

Introduction

Data-driven approach – workflow

Benefits of data-driven testing

Creating a data-driven test using JUnit

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Creating a data-driven test using TestNG

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Reading test data from a CSV file using JUnit

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Reading test data from an Excel file using JUnit and Apache POI

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it wo...