Selenium Essentials

Prashanth Sams

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781784394332
• Topic: Informatica
• Subtopic: Programmazione web

Selenium Essentials

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Table of Contents

Selenium Essentials

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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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. The Selenium IDE

WebDriver playback

Prerequisites for the WebDriver playback feature

Locator prioritization

Avoiding Selenium export

The Selenium IDE clipboard

Data Driven tests

User-defined JavaScript methods

Selenium IDE JavaScript functions

Simple JavaScript execution

Mouse scroll

Parameterization using arrays

Selenium Builder

Recording and playback

Data Driven tests

Testing using a JSON file

Testing using an XML file

Selenium Builder on the cloud

Summary

2. Selenium WebDriver Cross-browser Tests

Selenium WebDriver compatibility tests

TestNG

Selenium cross-browser tests on the cloud

SauceLabs

BrowserStack

TestingBot

Selenium headless browser testing

PhantomJS

HTMLUnitDriver

Switching user agents

Firefox user agent

Chrome user agent

Tests on specific Firefox versions

Tests from the custom Firefox profile

Tests from the custom Chrome profile

Summary

3. Selenium WebDriver Functions

Basic WebDriver functions

Locating WebElements

WebElement functions

Navigation

Cookies

Window functions

Select functions

Handling alerts and pop-ups

Mouse and keyboard actions

Summary

4. Selenium WebDriver Best Practices

Handling Ajax websites

The isElementPresent method

Waits

Explicit wait

The FluentWait method

Sleeper

Timeouts

The PageObject pattern

The PageFactory class

The @FindBy annotation

The @FindBys annotation

The EventFiringWebDriver class

Event-firing WebDriver example

Handling iframes

Handling native OS and browser pop-ups using Java Robot

Downloading browser pop-ups

Screen capture

Firefox profile to download files

The JavascriptExecutor class

Page scroll

Highlighting elements

Opening a new browser window

JavaScript error collector

Summary

5. Selenium WebDriver Frameworks

Behaviour-Driven Development

Cucumber BDD framework

Cucumber JVM

JBehave BDD framework

JXL API Data-Driven framework

Reading and writing in an Excel sheet

Simple Data-Driven approach

Data-Driven testing using reusable library

Data-Driven testing using TestNG with the @dataProvider annotation

Apache POI Data-Driven framework

HSSF usermodel – Binary workbook

XSSF usermodel – SpreadsheetML workbook (.xlsx)

SS usermodel – Binary and SpreadsheetML workbooks

Text file Data-Driven framework

Data-Driven testing using TestNG with the @dataProvider annotation – text file

Properties file Data-Driven framework

Data-Driven testing using TestNG with @dataProvider annotation – properties file

CSV file Data-Driven framework

Keyword-Driven framework

Hybrid-Driven framework

Summary

Index

Selenium Essentials

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Credits

Author

Prashanth Sams

Reviewer

Alen Šiljak

Commissioning Editor

Pramila Balan

Acquisition Editor

Llewellyn Rozario

Content Development Editor

Sweny Sukumaran

Technical Editor

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Copy Editor

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Project Coordinator

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Proofreaders

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Indexer

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Production Coordinator

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Cover Work

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About the Author

Prashanth Sams is a test automation engineer contributing to the IT industry since 2011. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in information technology from Anna University and lives in Chennai, India, with his family. He started his career as a human resource executive. Later, he worked at an HR outsourcing (US recruiting) company that operates in Chennai.

He is very passionate about test automation and has chosen to be a professional software engineer. He is an active blogger and a moderator for http://seleniumworks.blogspot.in/, a blog about Selenium, and is a great supporter of the Selenium Community, responding diligently to questions and answers over professional networks. He loves emerging technologies with soft skills development and spends 14 to 16 hours a day on them. In a short span of time, he has gained rich experience in various projects, handling different automation tools. Prashanth's Twitter handle is @prashanthsams.

I would like to thank all Selenium Core committers and the Selenium Community members who spend most of their time making this open source product a successful tool. I would also like to thank the editors of this book, who are very intense and responsible for bringing about knowledge transfer to software professionals.

About the Reviewer

Alen Šiljak is a solutions architect and software development enthusiast who was lucky enough to live through the times from the 8-bit machines to the 64-bit ones. As a fan of Agile methodologies, he appreciates creativity and enjoys creating order from entropy. Currently, he is happy to see software become mainstream, but he still sighs for the times when technologies were obsolete in a matter of months, if not weeks. Also, he stil...