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Selenium Essentials

You're reading from Selenium Essentials Get to grips with automated web testing with the amazing power of Selenium WebDriver

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784394332

Length 194 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Selenium

Concepts

Application Testing

Author (1):

Sams

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Table of Contents (7) Chapters

Preface

1. The Selenium IDE

2. Selenium WebDriver Cross-browser Tests FREE CHAPTER

3. Selenium WebDriver Functions

4. Selenium WebDriver Best Practices

5. Selenium WebDriver Frameworks

Index

Switching user agents

Earlier, cryptic commands and texts were used to retrieve data from the Internet, which would act as a user agent; now, web browsers are used as user agents. To put it simply, a user agent is a tool to browse the Internet by faking another browser. In general, websites are being rendered differently on different browsers with different platforms (for example, Chrome browser on Windows 7). However, the user agents cannot render a web page similar to the selected one. The user can track their own user agent string from http://whatsmyuseragent.com/.

For example, Mozilla Firefox 5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36.

Here, Mozilla/5.0 is an application name and Chrome/36.0.1985.143 is the browser type, with version. Whenever the user enters a URL in the web browser, a request will be sent to the web server to identify the user agent; it provides the relevant data as response. Selenium WebDriver has extended its features...

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Sams

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.

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