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Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0

You're reading from Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 Boost the performance and reliability of your automated checks by mastering Selenium WebDriver

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788299671

Length 376 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Boost

Concepts

Application Testing

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Contributors

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Preface

1. Creating a Fast Feedback Loop FREE CHAPTER

2. Producing the Right Feedback When Failing

3. Exceptions Are Actually Oracles

4. The Waiting Game

5. Working with Effective Page Objects

6. Utilizing the Advanced User Interactions API

7. JavaScript Execution with Selenium

8. Keeping It Real

9. Hooking Docker into Selenium

10. Selenium – the Future

1. Appendix A: Contributing to Selenium

2. Appendix B: Working with JUnit

3. Appendix C: Introduction to Appium

4. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

File downloads with Selenium

At some point in your career, you are probably going to work with a website that allows the user to download something. There are many different types of things that may be downloadable. The most common things are probably:

PDF files
Pictures (PNG, JPG, and GIF)
Archives
Installers

When you are working on a site that allows you to download files of some type, you will be expected to test that this functionality works and, at some point, the idea of writing some automated checks for this functionality will probably come up.

The scenario

You are working in a small, agile team and are in a pre-planning session with your tech lead, business analyst, and product owner. The product owner would like to give your users some new functionality that enables them to download PDFs from the website that you are working on. These PDFs are going to have legal terms and conditions in them to satisfy statutory requirements, so it is important that they are available. If they are not...

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