Avasarala - Selenium Testing Tools Definitive Guide

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.

I would like to thank all my acquisition editors, technical editors, and project coordinators for constantly supporting me in completing this book. I should also thank my colleagues, Pratik Patil and Kerri Rusnak, for their constant encouragement and support in writing this book. Last but not least, I would like to thank my wife, Swathi Vennelaganti, for sacrificing many weekends while I was busy writing this book. Without all these people, this book wouldn't have been a reality.

Anuj Chaudhary is a software engineer who enjoys working on software testing and automation. He has a vast experience with various testing methodologies such as manual testing, automated testing, performance testing, and security testing. He has worked as an individual contributor and technical lead on various software projects dealing with all of the stages in the application development life cycle.

He has been awarded the title of Microsoft MVP twice in a row. He writes a blog that you can visit at www.anujchaudhary.com.

I would like to thank and congratulate the Packt Publishing team for publishing this awesome book.

David Askirk Fotel has worked with computers since his parents brought home an old, used IBM PS/2. He started his development career writing simple programs in QBasic and later in Pascal. From there, he moved on to writing programs in C. Later on, he moved on to Java and other languages. His greatest experience so far was with Lisp, which had a great impact on his programming style and approach to code.

David has worked on test-driven development and as a test manager, implementing Selenium tests on an e-learning system.

This book is the first on which David has worked, but will not be the last!

Daniel Lam is an Agile Test Developer with experience in open and closed source test tools. He specializes in Java, Selenium WebDriver, Continuous Integration, and BDD test frameworks.

Ripon Al Wasim is a software engineer living in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has 12 years' experience in the software industry, three years in software development, and nine years in software testing (both manual and automated). He has also been involved in conducting software testing courses in various companies. He has worked for clients in various countries such as Japan, USA, Finland, Norway, and Bangladesh.

Ripon started participating in posting professional questions and answers on Stack Overflow in the year 2011 at http://stackoverflow.com/users/617450/ripon-al-wasim.

Ripon is a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP). He is Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) Level 3 certified, and is a little familiar with Japanese culture, as he stayed in Japan for one year as an IT professional. This book is Ripon's first official effort.

I would like to thank my mother and wife for fostering a helping and inspiring environment at home so I could study and review. I am also deeply thankful and grateful to Cefalo Amravi Ltd. (http://cefalo.com/en), my current company, for providing me a good opportunity to work with automated testing using Selenium WebDriver. I would like to thank Yves Hwang, Product Manager at Varnish Software (https://www.varnish-software.com/) and Partha Guha Roy, CTO of Cefalo Amravi Ltd. for providing technical assistance during my project work.