Selenium WebDriver is an open source software-testing tool used to automate web-based applications that is platform independent and that can be accessed by any popular programming languages. It's been about a decade since Jason Huggins started the Selenium project in 2004 at Thoughtworks. Later, in 2008, Simon Stewart combined his work on WebDriver with Selenium to give a new birth to Selenium WebDriver. Today, Selenium WebDriver is the most widely used web-automation tool around the world.
This book provides guidance that will help readers grasp Selenium WebDriver concepts fast. You will learn about the advanced features of the Selenium IDE and Selenium Builder, followed by cross-browser tests, methods of Selenium WebDriver, best practices involved, and extensive ideas to create a Selenium framework.
Chapter 1, The Selenium IDE, provides intense ideas to practice record-and-playback IDEs such as the Selenium IDE and Selenium Builder.
Chapter 2, Selenium WebDriver Cross-browser Tests, helps you to do efficient compatibility tests. Here, we will also learn about how to run tests in the cloud.
Chapter 3, Selenium WebDriver Functions, delivers all the functions of Selenium WebDriver in detail with examples on each.
Chapter 4, Selenium WebDriver Best Practices, explains how to manage Selenium automation tasks with dissimilar techniques.
Chapter 5, Selenium WebDriver Frameworks, guides you to customize and build any kind of automation framework using Selenium WebDriver.