Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition

Raghavendra Prasad MG

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781784396497
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Web Development
• Index: Computer Science

Learning Selenium Testing Tools Third Edition

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Table of Contents

Learning Selenium Testing Tools Third Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

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. Getting Started with Selenium IDE

Understanding Selenium IDE

Installing Selenium IDE

Getting acquainted with the Selenium IDE tool

Rules in creating tests with Selenium IDE

Recording your first test with Selenium IDE

Validating a test with assert and verify

Creating comments in your tests

Adding Selenium IDE comments

Multiplying windows

Working with multiple windows

Complex working with multiple windows

Selenium tests against AJAX applications

Working on pages with AJAX

Working with AJAX applications

Storing information from the page in the test

Debugging tests

Creating test suites

Parameterization

Selenium IDE Configuration

Generating source code from Selenium IDE

Saving tests

What you cannot record

Summary

Self-test questions

2. Locators

Locating elements by ID

Finding IDs of elements on the page with Firebug

Finding elements by ID

Moving elements on the page

Finding elements by name

Adding filters to the name

Finding elements by link text

Finding elements by accessing the DOM via JavaScript

Finding elements by XPath

Using direct XPath in your test

Finding elements by direct XPath

Using XPath to find the nth element of a type

Using element attributes in XPath queries

Performing partial match on attribute content

Finding an element by the text it contains

Leveraging the XPath axis with elements

Using the XPath axis

CSS selectors

Finding elements by CSS

Using child nodes to find the element

Using sibling nodes to find the element

Using CSS class attributes in CSS selectors

Using element IDs in CSS selectors

Working with elements and their attributes

Finding elements by their attributes

Performing partial matches on attributes content

Finding the nth element with CSS

Finding an element by its inner text or partial text

Summary

Self-test questions

3. Overview of the Selenium WebDriver

History of Selenium

Understanding the WebDriver architecture

The WebDriver API

The WebDriver SPI

The JSON Wire Protocol

The Selenium server

Merging of two projects

Setting up the IntelliJ IDEA project

Setting up Eclipse IDE with Java project for Selenium WebDriver and TestNG

Downloading WebDriver JAR files

Downloading and installing Eclipse

Configuring WebDriver with Eclipse

TestNG plug-in installation for Eclipse

Steps for installation

Summary

Self-test questions

4. Finding Elements

Finding elements

Finding an element on the page by its ID

Using findElementById()

Finding elements on the page by their ID

Using findElementsById()

Finding an element on the page by its name

Using findElementByName()

Finding elements on the page by their name

Using findElementsByName()

Finding an element on the page by its ClassName

Using findElementByClassName()

Finding elements on the page by their ClassName

Using findElementsByClassName()

Finding an element on the page by its XPath

Using findElementByXPath()

Finding elements on the page by their XPath

Using findElementsByXpath()

Finding an element on the page by its link text

Using findElementByLinkText()

Finding elements on the page by their link text

Using findElementsByLinkText()

Using findElement Helper methods

Finding elements using a more generic method

Using findElement()

Using findElements()

Tips and tricks

Finding if an element exists without throwing an error

Waiting for elements to appear on the page

Implicit waits

Using implicit waits

Explicit waits

Using explicit waits with Selenium WebDriver

Summary

Self-test questions

5. Design Patterns

Page objects

Setting up the test

Moving Selenium steps into private methods to make tests maintainable

Using the Page Object pattern to design tests

Using Page Factory with Page Object

Using PageFactory

LoadableComponent

Changing our Page Object to use LoadableComponent

Using LoadableComponent

Summary

Self-test questions

6. Working with WebDriver

Working with FirefoxDriver

Firefox profile preferences

Installing a Firefox add-on

Working with ChromeDriver

ChromeOptions

Working with OperaDriver

OperaProfile

Working with InternetExplorerDriver

Other important points

Summary

Self-test questions

7. Automation Framework Development and Building Utilities

Automation without framework

Automation with Framework

Test Automation Frameworks Evolution

Record/Playback

Advantages

Disadvantages

Action driven approach

Advantages

Disa...