Selenium is a portable software testing framework for web applications. It is open-source software, released under the Apache 2.0 license, and can be downloaded and used without charge.

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Selenium WebDriver is the successor to Selenium RC. Selenium WebDriver accepts commands and sends them to a browser. This is implemented through a browser-specific browser driver, which sends commands to a browser, and retrieves results. Selenium WebDriver is a set of open source tools and libraries to automate browsers. It has gained a wider acceptance and has become a tool of choice for automated testing on web applications. Selenium WebDriver is now part of the W3C standard. The beauty of Selenium WebDriver is that the user can write automated tests in any language, thanks to its platform agnostic approach. It provides a number of client libraries in Java, C#, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and more to write the tests. Over the years Selenium has become a very powerful testing platform and many organizations are adopting Selenium over the other commercial tools.

In the book Learning Selenium WebDriver with Python by Unmesh Gundecha, you will learn the following topics:

• Creating Selenium WebDriver tests using Python the unittest module
• Using Selenium WebDriver for cross-browser testing
• Building reliable and robust tests using implicit and explicit waits
• Setting up and using Selenium Grid for a distributed run
• Testing web applications on mobile platforms such as iOS and Android using Appium
• Using various methods provided by Selenium WebDriver to locate the web elements and interact with them
• Capturing screenshot and video of the test execution

This book is a practical guide on automated web testing with Selenium testing tools using Python and is written for users with previous Python experience, although any previous knowledge of Selenium WebDriver is not needed. The author has provided you with step-by-step tutorials including practical examples that will help you build automated tests for testing your web applications using the Selenium WebDriver Python client library. This book is an interactive guide on automated web testing with Selenium WebDriver using Python. With the help of this book you can use Selenium for automated testing in real world, explore the Selenium WebDriver API for easy implementation of small to complex operations on browsers and web applications, and its easy and practical examples will help you get started with Selenium WebDriver.

Summary

The main aim of this book is to cover the fundamentals related to Python Selenium testing. You will learn how the Selenium WebDriver Python API can be integrated with CI and Build tools to allow tests to be run while building applications. This book will guide you through using the Selenium WebDriver Python client library as well as other tools from the Selenium project. Towards the end of this book, you'll get to grips with Selenium Grid, which is used for running tests in parallel using nodes for cross-browser testing. It will also give you a basic overview of the concepts, while helping you improve your practical testing skills with Python and Selenium.

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