Most of the framework components you design and build will be customized to your application under test. However, there are many third-party tools and plugins available you can use to provide better results processing, reporting, performance, and services to the engineers using the framework.

In this chapter, some of the more popular APIs and plugins will be covered such as the Selenium IntelliJ plugin, TestNG, HTML Publisher, BrowserMob Proxy, ExtentReports, and Sauce Labs.

This is the part of the framework that is optional, but will be requested by many users to support the testing, debugging, and certification needs of the CI process in the Continuous Delivery model.

In Chapter 8, Designing a Selenium Grid, setting up an in-house grid using the Selenium Grid Architecture was covered, and in this chapter, one of the third-party service providers called Sauce Labs will be discussed.

You will learn how to build in support to the Selenium Framework with third-party tools, APIs, plugins, and services.