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You're reading from Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide - Second Edition

Product type Book

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788999762

Pages 280 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Concepts

Application Testing

Authors (3):

Pallavi Sharma

UNMESH GUNDECHA

Satya Avasarala

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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

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Exploring Selenium Grid

Let's try to understand why we need Selenium Grid by analyzing a scenario. You have a web application that needs to be tested on the following browser-machine combinations:

Google Chrome on Windows 10
Google Chrome on macOS
Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10
Firefox on Linux

We can simply alter the test script we created in the previous chapter and point to the Selenium Standalone Server running on each of these combinations (that is, Windows 10, macOS, or Linux), as shown in the following code.

Windows 10:

DesiredCapabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities();
caps.setBrowserName("chrome");
caps.setPlatform(Platform.WIN10);
WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://<win_10_ip>:4444/wd/hub"), capabilities);

macOS:

DesiredCapabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities();
caps.setBrowserName("chrome");
caps...

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Authors (3)

Pallavi Sharma

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 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 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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