In the previous section, we saw how to retrieve values or properties of WebElements. In this section, we will see how to perform actions on WebElements, which is the most crucial part of automation. Let's explore the various methods available in the WebElement interface.
- 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
Performing actions on WebElements
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