Selenium Essentials

Description

Packt Publishing, 2015. — 284 p. — ISBN: 978-1784394332.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. 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.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. The Selenium IDE WebDriver playback Prerequisites for the WebDriver playback feature Locator prioritization Avoiding Selenium export The Selenium IDE clipboard Data Driven tests User-defined JavaScript methods Selenium IDE JavaScript functions Simple JavaScript execution Mouse scroll Parameterization using arrays Selenium Builder Recording and playback Data Driven tests Testing using a JSON file Testing using an XML file Selenium Builder on the cloud Summary 2. Selenium WebDriver Cross-browser Tests Selenium WebDriver compatibility tests TestNG Selenium cross-browser tests on the cloud SauceLabs BrowserStack TestingBot Selenium headless browser testing PhantomJS HTMLUnitDriver Switching user agents Firefox user agent Chrome user agent Tests on specific Firefox versions Tests from the custom Firefox profile Tests from the custom Chrome profile Summary 3. Selenium WebDriver Functions Basic WebDriver functions Locating WebElements WebElement functions Navigation Cookies Window functions Select functions Handling alerts and pop-ups Mouse and keyboard actions Summary 4. Selenium WebDriver Best Practices Handling Ajax websites The isElementPresent method Waits Explicit wait The FluentWait method Sleeper Timeouts The PageObject pattern The PageFactory class The @FindBy annotation The @FindBys annotation The EventFiringWebDriver class Event-firing WebDriver example Handling iframes Handling native OS and browser pop-ups using Java Robot Downloading browser pop-ups Screen capture Firefox profile to download files The JavascriptExecutor class Page scroll Highlighting elements Opening a new browser window JavaScript error collector Summary 5. Selenium WebDriver Frameworks Behaviour-Driven Development Cucumber BDD framework Cucumber JVM JBehave BDD framework JXL API Data-Driven framework Reading and writing in an Excel sheet Simple Data-Driven approach Data-Driven testing using reusable library Data-Driven testing using TestNG with the @dataProvider annotation Apache POI Data-Driven framework HSSF usermodel – Binary workbook XSSF usermodel – SpreadsheetML workbook (.xlsx) SS usermodel – Binary and SpreadsheetML workbooks Text file Data-Driven framework Data-Driven testing using TestNG with the @dataProvider annotation – text file Properties file Data-Driven framework Data-Driven testing using TestNG with @dataProvider annotation – properties file CSV file Data-Driven framework Keyword-Driven framework Hybrid-Driven framework Summary Index