Pinakin Chaubal - Selenium WebDriver Quick Start Guide: Write clear, readable, and reliable tests with Selenium WebDriver 3

Copyright 2018 Packt Publishing

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews.

Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author(s), nor Packt Publishing or its dealers and distributors, will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly by this book.

Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information.

Commissioning Editor: Kunal Chaudari
Acquisition Editor: Siddharth Mandal
Content Development Editor: Smit Carvalho
Technical Editor: Sushmeeta Jena
Copy Editor: Safis Editing
Project Coordinator: Hardik Bhinde
Proofreader: Safis Editing
Indexer: Mariammal Chettiyar
Graphics: Alishon Mendonsa
Production Coordinator: Aparna Bhagat

First published: October 2018

Production reference: 2051118

Published by Packt Publishing Ltd.
Livery Place
35 Livery Street
Birmingham
B3 2PB, UK.

ISBN 978-1-78961-248-6

www.packtpub.com

Mapt is an online digital library that gives you full access to over 5,000 books and videos, as well as industry leading tools to help you plan your personal development and advance your career. For more information, please visit our website.

• Spend less time learning and more time coding with practical eBooks and Videos from over 4,000 industry professionals

• Improve your learning with Skill Plans built especially for you

• Get a free eBook or video every month

• Mapt is fully searchable

• Copy and paste, print, and bookmark content

Did you know that Packt offers eBook versions of every book published, with PDF and ePub files available? You can upgrade to the eBook version at www.Packt.com and as a print book customer, you are entitled to a discount on the eBook copy. Get in touch with us at service@packtpub.com for more details.

At www.Packt.com , you can also read a collection of free technical articles, sign up for a range of free newsletters, and receive exclusive discounts and offers on Packt books and eBooks.

Pinakin Chaubal is a BE (Computer Science) with more than 18 years of experience in the IT industry. He is a PMP-certified professional and has worked with employers such as Patni, Accenture, L&T Infotech, and Polaris. He is currently working as a automation architect at Intellect Design Arena Ltd. (the product wing of Polaris). He has designed several frameworks using various techniques, including hybrid, keyword-driven, Page Object Model, and BDD, with Cucumber and Java. He has written one independently published book on Page Object Model using Selenium WebDriver and Java. He has been a reviewer for two books published by Packt. He has his own YouTube channel called Automation Geek, which covers various concepts related to testing and automation.

Nilesh Kulkarni is a staff software engineer, currently at PayPal. Nilesh has extensive experience of working with Selenium. Nilesh has developed frameworks on top of WebDriver in different programming languages and is an open source contributor. Nilesh has actively worked on PayPal's open source UI automation framework, nemo.js. Nilesh is passionate about quality and has worked on different developer productivity tools. He often hangs out on Stack Overflow.

If you're interested in becoming an author for Packt, please visit authors.packtpub.com and apply today. We have worked with thousands of developers and tech professionals, just like you, to help them share their insight with the global tech community. You can make a general application, apply for a specific hot topic that we are recruiting an author for, or submit your own idea.

Selenium WebDriver is based on the JSON wire protocol. This book explores various facets of Selenium WebDriver 3. It introduces Selenium WebDriver 3 in a layman fashion and opens the areas in Browser Automation to the reader.

Starting from a very basic introduction to element locators, the basic Selenium commands are explored and various programs are demonstrated to make the concepts clear. Handling popup windows and alerts is dealt with next, followed by various waiting mechanisms. Then we move on to the Actions class and JavaScript executor. Eventually, we explore the command design pattern, create few components of a Keyword-Driven framework, and learn about the extra locators available in Selenium WebDriver 3.

This book is intended for people who wish to learn Selenium WebDriver from scratch. It can also be used by people working on other automation tools, such as UFT, and want to explore Selenium from the ground up.

, Introducing Selenium WebDriver and Environment Setup, gently introduces the reader to what Selenium is, how WebDriver is different from Selenium RC, and covers how to set up Eclipse.

, Understanding the Document Object Model and Creating Customized XPaths. covers with locator identifying mechanisms and the different ways to find XPath. It also introduces the Fillo API and debugging in Eclipse.

, Basic Selenium Commands and Their Usage in Building a Framework, covers the various Selenium commands and their practical usage. We also see some wrapper methods, which can be useful in designing a framework. We go over extract programs to fetch data from excel based on certain criteria.

, Handling Popups, Frames, and Alerts, covers how to handle modal and non-modal popups. We create some customized HTML pages with JavaScript for this purpose.

, Synchronization, covers the various ways of waiting for page loads, elements to be visible, and jQuery execution to get completed.

, The Actions Class and JavascriptExecutor, takes a look at the what the Actions class and the JavaScript executor are by going through many examples with the examples of HTML pages that we create.