Learn Selenium: Build data-driven test frameworks for mobile and web applications with Selenium Web Driver 3

Learn end-to-end automation testing techniques for web and mobile browsers using Selenium WebDriver, AppiumDriver, Java, and TestNG

Key Features

• Explore the Selenium grid architecture and build your own grid for browser and mobile devices
• Use ExtentReports for processing results and SauceLabs for cloud-based test services
• Unlock the full potential of Selenium to test your web applications.

Book Description

Selenium WebDriver 3.x is an open source API for testing both browser and mobile applications. With the help of this book, you can build a solid foundation and can easily perform end-to-end testing on web and mobile browsers.You'll begin by being introduced to the Selenium Page Object Model for software development. You'll architect your own framework with a scalable driver class, Java utility classes, and support for third-party tools and plugins. You'll design and build a Selenium grid from scratch to enable the framework to scale and support different browsers, mobile devices, and platforms.You'll strategize and handle a rich web UI using the advanced WebDriver API and learn techniques to handle real-time challenges in WebDriver. You'll perform different types of testing, such as cross-browser testing, load testing, and mobile testing. Finally, you will also be introduced to data-driven testing, using TestNG to create your own automation framework.By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to design your own automation testing framework and perform data-driven testing with Selenium WebDriver.

This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:

• Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide - Second Edition by Unmesh Gundecha
• Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing by Carl Cocchiaro

What you will learn

• Use different mobile and desktop browser platforms with Selenium 3
• Use the Actions API for performing various keyboard and mouse actions
• Design the Selenium Driver Class for local, remote, and third-party grid support
• Build page object classes with the Selenium Page Object Model
• Develop data-driven test classes using the TestNG framework
• Encapsulate data using the JSON protocol
• Build a Selenium Grid for RemoteWebDriver testing
• Build and use utility classes in synchronization, file I/O, reporting and test listener classes

Who this book is for

This Learning Path is ideal for software quality assurance/testing professionals, software project managers, or software developers interested in using Selenium for testing their applications. Professionals responsible for designing and building enterprise-based testing frameworks will also find this Learning Path useful. Prior programming experience in Java are TestNG is necessary.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing Web Driver and Web Elements
2. Using Java 8 Features with Selenium
3. Exploring the Features of WebDriver
4. Exploring Advanced Interactions of WebDriver
5. Understanding WebDriver Events
6. Exploring RemoteWebDriver
7. Setting up Selenium Grid
8. Data-Driven Testing with TestNG
9. Building a Scalable Selenium Test Driver Class for Web and Mobile Applications
10. Selenium Framework Utility Classes
11. Best Practices for Building Selenium Page Object Classes
12. Defining WebDriver and AppiumDriver Page Object Elements
13. Building a JSON Data Provider
14. Developing Data-Driven Test Classes
15. Encapsulating Data in Data-Driven Testing
16. Designing a Selenium Grid
17. Third-Party Tools and Plugins
18. Working Selenium WebDriver Framework Samples

Unmesh Gundecha has over 16 years, experience in Agile software development, test automation, and DevOps methodologies. He is an Agile, open source, and DevOps evangelist with extensive experience in a diverse set of tools and technologies. He has extensive hands-on experience in building sustainable and repeatable test automation solutions for web and mobile platforms, APIs, and CLI apps with continuous integration and delivery pipelines, using best-of-breed open source and commercial tools to do so. He is the author of Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook and Learning Selenium Testing Tools with Python, both by Packt Publishing.

Carl Cocchiaro has a bachelor's degree in business and over 30 years of experience in the software engineering field, designing and building test frameworks for desktop, browser, and mobile applications. He is an expert in the Selenium WebDriver/TestNG Java-based technologies. He is a certified SilkTest engineer and has architected UI and RESTful API automation frameworks for 25 major corporations. Carl is currently a software architect, quality engineering at RSA/Dell technologies, Boston, MA, USA.