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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

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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

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Index

Chapter 4. The Waiting Game

In the previous chapter, we had a look at various exceptions and some of the possible causes of them. In this chapter, we will do the following:

Look at implicit and explicit waits
Find out about the ExpectedConditions class in the Selenium support package
Examine how we can extend ExpectedConditions by adding our own customized waits
Have a look at the core fluent wait functionality built into Selenium, and the use of functions and predicates

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