Selenium Testing Tools Definitive Guide

264 Pages·2014·5.73 MB·English

by  Avasarala

Selenium WebDriver
Practical Guide
Interactively automate web applications using
Selenium WebDriver
Satya Avasarala
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Selenium WebDriver Practical Guide
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Credits
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Ripon Al Wasim
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About the Author
Satya Avasarala has rich experience in Java development and automation testing.
He is an engineer in computer science. He has used WebDriver for many years
now and has created several good automation frameworks. He has worked at
various large software enterprises such as Oracle Corp, Yahoo! Inc., VMware Inc.,
and the REA Group.
In addition, he is also interested in Service Oriented Architectural design and
Business Intelligence. He is an Oracle-certified Service Oriented Architecture
Infrastructure Implementation Expert and a Business Intelligence Foundation
Suite Implementation Specialist.
I would like to thank all my acquisition editors, technical editors,
and project coordinators for constantly supporting me in completing
this book. I should also thank my colleagues, Pratik Patil and Kerri
Rusnak, for their constant encouragement and support in writing
this book. Last but not least, I would like to thank my wife, Swathi
Vennelaganti, for sacrificing many weekends while I was busy
writing this book. Without all these people, this book wouldn't have
been a reality.
About the Reviewers
Anuj Chaudhary is a software engineer who enjoys working on software testing
and automation. He has a vast experience with various testing methodologies such
as manual testing, automated testing, performance testing, and security testing. He
has worked as an individual contributor and technical lead on various software
projects dealing with all of the stages in the application development life cycle.
He has been awarded the title of Microsoft MVP twice in a row. He writes a blog that
you can visit at www.anujchaudhary.com.
I would like to thank and congratulate the Packt Publishing team for
publishing this awesome book.
David Askirk Fotel has worked with computers since his parents brought
home an old, used IBM PS/2. He started his development career writing simple
programs in QBasic and later in Pascal. From there, he moved on to writing
programs in C. Later on, he moved on to Java and other languages. His greatest
experience so far was with Lisp, which had a great impact on his programming
style and approach to code.
David has worked on test-driven development and as a test manager, implementing
Selenium tests on an e-learning system.
This book is the first on which David has worked, but will not be the last!
Daniel Lam is an Agile Test Developer with experience in open and closed source
test tools. He specializes in Java, Selenium WebDriver, Continuous Integration, and
BDD test frameworks.
Ripon Al Wasim is a software engineer living in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has 12
years' experience in the software industry, three years in software development,
and nine years in software testing (both manual and automated). He has also been
involved in conducting software testing courses in various companies. He has
worked for clients in various countries such as Japan, USA, Finland, Norway, and
Bangladesh.
Ripon started participating in posting professional questions and answers on Stack
Overflow in the year 2011 at http://stackoverflow.com/users/617450/ripon-
al-wasim.
Ripon is a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP). He is Japanese Language
Proficiency Test (JLPT) Level 3 certified, and is a little familiar with Japanese culture,
as he stayed in Japan for one year as an IT professional. This book is Ripon's first
official effort.
I would like to thank my mother and wife for fostering a helping
and inspiring environment at home so I could study and review.
I am also deeply thankful and grateful to Cefalo Amravi Ltd.
(http://cefalo.com/en), my current company, for providing me
a good opportunity to work with automated testing using Selenium
WebDriver. I would like to thank Yves Hwang, Product Manager
at Varnish Software (https://www.varnish-software.com/) and
Partha Guha Roy, CTO of Cefalo Amravi Ltd. for providing technical
assistance during my project work.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Introducing WebDriver and WebElements 9
Understanding the history of Selenium 9
Selenium 1 or Selenium Remote Control or Selenium RC 9
Selenium 2 or Selenium WebDriver or WebDriver 12
Differences between Selenium 1 and Selenium 2 13
Handling the browser 14
Having better APIs 14
Testing mobile apps 14
Having developer support and advanced functionalities 14
Setting up a project in Eclipse 15
WebElements 20
Locating WebElements using WebDriver 21
The findElement() method 21
The findElements() method 22
Firebug 22
Using the By locating mechanism 23
Actions on WebElements 32
The getAttribute() method 32
The sendKeys() method 33
The clear() method 34
The submit() method 35
The getCssValue() method 36
The getLocation() method 37
The getSize() method 38
The getText() method 38
The getTagName() method 39
The isDisplayed() method 40
The isEnabled() method 41
The isSelected() method 41
Summary 42