In this chapter, users will be introduced to data-driven testing, the Selenium Page Object Model, and Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) approaches to testing, all of which work hand-in-hand with each other, and are required for scalable frameworks. Let's briefly discuss each.
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contributors
- About Packt
- Preface
- Introducing WebDriver and WebElements
- Selenium Testing Tools
- Differences between Selenium 2 and Selenium 3 
- Setting up a project in Eclipse with Maven and TestNG using Java
- WebElements
- Locating WebElements using WebDriver 
- Interacting with WebElements
- Summary
- Questions
- Further information
- Using Java 8 Features with Selenium
- Exploring the Features of WebDriver
- Exploring Advanced Interactions of WebDriver
- Understanding the build and perform actions
- Learning mouse based interactions
- The moveByOffset action
- The click at current location action
- The click on a WebElement action
- The click and hold at current location action
- The click and hold a WebElement action
- The release at current location action
- The release on another WebElement action 
- The moveToElement action
- The dragAndDropBy action
- The dragAndDrop action
- The double click at current location action
- The double click on WebElement action
- The context click on WebElement action
- The context click at current location action
- Learning keyboard-based interactions
- Summary
- Questions
- Further information
- Understanding WebDriver Events
- Introducing the eventFiringWebDriver and eventListener classes 
- Creating an instance of EventListener 
- Exploring different WebDriver event listeners
- Listening for WebElement value changes
- Listening for the clicked WebElement
- Listening for a WebElement search event
- Listening for browser back-navigation
- Listening for browser forward-navigation
- Listening for browser NavigateTo events
- Listening for script execution
- Listening for an exception
- Unregistering EventListener with EventFiringWebDriver
- Performing accessibility testing
- Capturing page-performance metrics
- Summary
- Questions
- Further information
- Exploring RemoteWebDriver
- Setting up Selenium Grid
- Exploring Selenium Grid
- Understanding the hub
- Understanding the node
- Modifying the existing test script to use Selenium Grid
- Configuring Selenium Grid
- Using cloud-based grids for cross-browser testing
- Summary
- Questions
- Further information
- Data-Driven Testing with TestNG
- Building a Scalable Selenium Test Driver Class for Web and Mobile Applications
- Introduction
- The singleton driver class
- Using preferences to support browsers and platforms
- Using preferences to support mobile device simulators, emulators, and real devices
- Multithreading support for parallel and distributed testing
- Passing optional arguments and parameters to the driver
- Selenium Grid Architecture support using the RemoteWebDriver and AppiumDriver classes
- Third-party grid architecture support including the Sauce Labs Test Cloud
- Using property files to select browsers, devices, versions, platforms, languages, and many more
- Summary
- Selenium Framework Utility Classes
- Best Practices for Building Selenium Page Object Classes
- Introduction
- Best practices for naming conventions, comments, and folder structures
- Designing and building the abstract base classes for the AUT
- Designing and building subclasses for feature-specific pages using inheritance techniques
- Encapsulation and using getter/setter methods to retrieve objects from the page object classes
- Exception handling and synchronization in page object class methods
- Table classes
- Summary
- Defining WebDriver and AppiumDriver Page Object Elements
- Building a JSON Data Provider
- Developing Data-Driven Test Classes
- Introduction
- Annotating test class methods using TestNG
- TestNG setup/teardown methods
- Naming conventions for test methods
- Using the TestNG DataProvider
- Calling page object methods in test classes
- Exception handling in test classes
- Designing base setup classes
- TestNG suite file structure
- Suite parameters
- Summary
- Encapsulating Data in Data-Driven Testing
- Introduction
- Casting JSON data to Java objects
- Building in positive, negative, boundary, and limit testing
- Confirmation and exception property files
- Property files and parsing test data on the fly
- Global variables versus dynamic data
- Processing JVM args
- Retrieving JSON data outside of test methods
- Supporting multibranded applications
- Multiple driver support
- Parallel testing
- Summary
- Designing a Selenium Grid
- Introduction
- Virtual grids
- Selenium driver class – WebDriver versus RemoteWebDriver
- Switching from local to remote driver
- Selenium standalone server and client drivers
- Selenium standalone server and browser driver command-line options
- Appium server and mobile simulator/emulator command-line options
- Selenium Grid console
- Directing traffic to Selenium nodes
- Third-Party Tools and Plugins
- Working Selenium WebDriver Framework Samples
- Assessments
- Other Books You May Enjoy
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