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Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide - Second Edition

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Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788999762
Pages 280 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Pallavi Sharma Pallavi Sharma
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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
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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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Satya Avasarala Satya Avasarala
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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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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface 1. Introducing WebDriver and WebElements 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 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 8

  1. Which argument can be used to specify how many browser instances can be supported by the node?

maxInstances.

  1. Explain how Selenium Grid can be used to support Cross Browser Testing.

With Selenium Grid, we can set up nodes for various Browser and Operating System combinations and run tests in a distributed architecture. Based on capabilities provided by the test, Selenium Grid selects the appropriate node and executes the test on the selected node. We can add as many nodes as required based on combinations we want to test as per the cross-browser testing matrix required for testing.

  1. What is the URL you need to specify with RemoteWebDriver to run tests on Selenium Grid?

http://gridHostnameOrIp:4444/wd/hub.

  1. Selenium Grid Hub acts as a load balancer: True or False?

True. Selenium Grid Hub distributes tests on multiple nodes based on the availability of the node

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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 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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Profile icon Satya Avasarala
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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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