Mark Collin - Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0

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Mark Collin has been working in the software industry since 2001. He started his career in the financial sector before moving into consultancy. He has an eclectic range of skills and proficiencies, which include test automation, security and penetration testing, and performance testing. Mark is the creator and maintainer of driver-binary-downloader-maven-plugin, and the Query library used in this book. He is also a core contributor to jmeter-maven-plugin, a tool that allows you to run JMeter tests through Maven. He has also contributed code to the core Selenium code base.

Pinakin Chaubal is a B.E.(computer science) from Dharamsinh Desai Institute of Technology (affiliated with Gujarat University). He is a PMP certified professional and is certified at ISTQB foundation level. He has also done HP0-M47 QTP 11 certification. He has 17+ years of experience in the IT world and has been working with companies such as Patni, Accenture, and L&T Infotech. He is the creator of the Automation Geek channel on YouTube, which teaches about PMP, ISTQB, Selenium WebDriver (integration with Jenkins), page object model using Cucumber, and JavaScript (including ES6).

Nilesh Kulkarni is a staff software engineer, currently at PayPal. Nilesh has extensive experience of working with Selenium. Nilesh 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.

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This book is going to focus on some of the more advanced aspects of Selenium. It will help you develop a greater understanding of Selenium as a test tool and provide you a series of strategies to help you create reliable and extensible test frameworks.

In the world of automation, there is rarely only one correct way of doing things. This book will provide you with a series of minimalistic implementations that are flexible enough to be customized to your specific needs.

This book is not going to teach you how to write bloated test frameworks that hide Selenium behind an impenetrable veil of obscurity. Instead, it will show you how to complement Selenium with useful additions that fit seamlessly into the rich and well-crafted API that Selenium already offers you.

If you are a software tester or a developer with working experience of Selenium and competency with Java who are interested in automation and are looking forward to taking the next step in your learning journey, then this is the book for you.

, Creating a Fast Feedback Loop, explains how to build a basic test framework that enables you to get started quickly. You will then focus on setting up a project using Maven to download your dependencies. Then you will learn about the advantages of running tests in parallel with multiple instances of the same browser in TestNG. Next, you will learn how to make your test code portable by automatically downloading the driver binaries using a Maven plugin and run your tests without interruption by running them in headless mode.