Collin - Mastering Selenium WebDriver : increase the performance, capability, and reliability of your automated checks by mastering Selenium WebDriver

Mark Collin is a professional software tester who has been working in the software testing industry since 2001. He started his career in the financial sector before moving in consultancy. As a consultant, he has had the privilege of working on numerous projects in many different sectors for various large and well-known companies. This has allowed him to gain an eclectic range of skills and proficiencies, which include test automation, security and penetration testing, and performance testing.

He loves technology and is always exploring new and exciting technology stacks to see how they can enhance the capability and reliability of automated checks. He is fully aware that though automation is good, at the moment, nothing can replace the human mind when it comes to having a well-rounded test solution.

He is a great believer in open source technology and spends a lot of time contributing towards open source projects. He is the creator and maintainer of the driver-binary-downloader-maven-plugin, which allows Maven to download ChromeDriver, OperaDriver, the IE driver, and PhantomJS to your machine as a part of a standard Maven build. He is also a core contributor to the jmeter-maven-plugin, a tool that allows you to run JMeter tests through Maven. Mark has also contributed code to the core Selenium code base.

A big thank you to all the core Selenium committers, especially David Burns, Jim Evans, and Luke Inman Semerau. Without these determined individuals, the Selenium project would not be where it is today.

Thank you Ral Ireneo Garca Surez for being a sounding board and pointing me in the right direction many times.

Finally, I'd like to thank my wife and family for giving me the time to put all of this together.

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

He was a recipient of the Microsoft MVP award twice in a row. He blogs at www.anujchaudhary.com.

He has also reviewed books on Selenium by Packt Publishing, such as Selenium WebDriver Practical Guide (http://www.packtpub.com/selenium-webdriver-practical-guide/book) and Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices (https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/selenium-design-patterns-and-best-practices).

I would like to thank my wife, Renu, and my son, Arjun, for always supporting me and letting me spend extra time on reviewing this book.

David Fotel has worked in various IT-related fields as a developer, system administrator, and an instructor. The technologies he has worked on include .NET and Linux. He has worked as a test manager, managing tests for an e-learning company. The broad knowledge that he has acquired gives him the ability to choose the right solution for a problem.

Prior to this, David has worked on Selenium WebDriver Practical Guide , Packt Publishing , as a technical reviewer.

Ripon Al Wasim has over 13 years of experience in the software industry. His professional experience includes software development and testing (both functional and nonfunctional). He is currently working as a senior software engineer at Cefalo (http://www.cefalo.com/).

He is mainly a Javaist. At present, he is trying to become Rubyist, as he is a fan of Watir (Web Application Testing in Ruby) and Cucumber.

Ripon is an active participant in the professional community of Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/users/617450/ripon-al-wasim).

He is one of the reviewers of Selenium WebDriver Practical Guide , which was his first official effort for Packt Publishing. He also reviewed another book titled Performance Testing with JMeter, Second Edition , which was also published by Packt Publishing.

I would like to thank my mother and wife for supporting me. In my spare time, I love to spend time with my wife, Koly, as well as my twin babies, Nawar and Nazif.

Finally, I'd like to thank all my colleagues, friends, and others.