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Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide

You're reading from Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide End-to-end automation testing for web and mobile browsers with Selenium WebDriver

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788999762

Length 280 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Selenium

Concepts

Application Testing

Authors (3):

Sharma

UNMESH GUNDECHA

Avasarala

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

1. Introducing WebDriver and WebElements FREE CHAPTER

2. Different Available WebDrivers

3. Using Java 8 Features 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

1. Assessments

2. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned about EventFiringWebDriver and EventListeners, and how they work together to make a developer's life easier by helping them to debug what is going on at each step while the test cases get executed. You also learned how to use WebDriver events to perform different types of testing on a page, such as accessibility and client-side performance checks. In the next chapter, you will learn more about RemoteWebDriver for running tests on remote machines in distributed and parallel mode for Cross-Browser Testing.

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Authors (3)

Sharma

Sharma

Pallavi Sharma is a founder of 5 Elements Learning. She has 12 years professional experience. She has worked in varied roles as a product/project manager, in presales team, marketing team, and test automation coach in the software testing domain. Being an avid learner, she also likes to keep herself up to date with the latest trends and technologies. She is a firm believer that there is no shortcut to success.

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UNMESH GUNDECHA

UNMESH GUNDECHA

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.

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Avasarala

Avasarala

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.

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