Learning Selenium Testing Tools with Python

Unmesh Gundecha has a Master's degree in Software Engineering and over 12 years of experience in software development and testing. Unmesh has architected functional test automation solutions using industry standards, in-house and custom test automation frameworks along with leading commercial and open source test automation tools.

He has development experience in Microsoft technologies and Java. He is presently working as a test solution architect with a multinational company in Pune, India.

His experience includes support to Ruby, Java, iOS, Android, and PHP projects as an automated tester and software developer.

He authored Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook , Packt Publishing in November 2012.

I would like to thank Neha Nagwekar, acquisition editor, for giving me an opportunity to write this book; Athira Laji, content development editor; Harshal Ved, project coordinator, for constantly supporting and encouraging me in completing this book; and the entire team at Packt Publishing.

This book has benefited a lot from a great team of technical reviewers. I'd like to thank each of them for volunteering their time reviewing the drafts of this book and providing valuable feedback.

I would also like to thank my mentor and friend, Yuri Weinstein, for his support and help during this project. Thanks to my friends and colleagues at work for their constant encouragement and support in writing this book.

Adil Imroz is a Python enthusiast who loves the simplicity of this beautiful language. He is a software developer in testing by profession and a mobile automation expert. He likes playing around with open source software and believes in being agile. When not working, he can be found biking, reading a book, or sleeping. He believes that there is a lot of scope around; all you have to do is hit the right chords. You can get in touch with him via e-mail at <>. You can also follow him on Twitter at @adilimroz.

Dr. Philip Polstra (known to his friends as Dr. Phil) is an internationally recognized hardware hacker. His work has been presented at numerous conferences around the globe, including repeat performances at DEFCON, Black Hat, 44CON, Maker Faire, and other top conferences. Dr. Polstra is a well-known expert on USB forensics and has published several articles on this topic.

Recently, Dr. Polstra has developed a penetration testing Linux distribution, known as The Deck, for the BeagleBone and BeagleBoard family of small computer boards. He has also developed a new way of performing penetration testing with multiple low-power devices, including an aerial hacking drone. This work is described in his book Hacking and Penetration Testing with Low Power Devices , Syngress Media (2014). Dr. Polstra has also been a technical reviewer on several books, including BeagleBone Home Automation by Juha Lumme and BeagleBone for Secret Agents by Josh Datko, both published in 2014 by Packt Publishing.

Dr. Polstra is an Associate Professor at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (http://bloomu.edu/digital_forensics), where he teaches digital forensics among other topics. In addition to teaching, he provides training and performs penetration tests on a consulting basis. When not working, he is known to fly, build aircraft, and tinker with electronics. His latest happenings can be found on his blog at http://philpolstra.com. You can also follow him on Twitter at @ppolstra.

Walt Stoneburner is a software architect with over 25 years of commercial application development and consulting experience. His fringe passions involve quality assurance, configuration management, and security. If cornered, he may actually admit to liking statistics and authoring documentation as well.

He's easily amused by programming language design, collaborative applications, big data, knowledge management, data visualization, and ASCII art. A self-proclaimed closet geek, Walt also evaluates software products and consumer electronics, draws cartoons, runs a freelance photography studio specializing in portraits and art (http://charismaticmoments.com/), writes humor pieces, performs sleight of hand, enjoys game designing, and can occasionally be found on ham radio.

Walt can be reached directly via e-mail at <.

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Yuri Weinstein lives in San Francisco, CA with his family. He has spent over two decades working for top technology companies in the Silicon Valley, focusing on software testing with a special passion for test automation techniques. He currently works at Red Hat, ensuring the quality of the Ceph open source storage project.