Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition电子书

Learning Selenium Testing Tools Third Edition

Table of Contents

Learning Selenium Testing Tools Third Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Selenium IDE

Understanding Selenium IDE

Installing Selenium IDE

Getting acquainted with the Selenium IDE tool

Rules in creating tests with Selenium IDE

Recording your first test with Selenium IDE

Validating a test with assert and verify

Creating comments in your tests

Adding Selenium IDE comments

Multiplying windows

Working with multiple windows

Complex working with multiple windows

Selenium tests against AJAX applications

Working on pages with AJAX

Working with AJAX applications

Storing information from the page in the test

Debugging tests

Creating test suites

Parameterization

Selenium IDE Configuration

Generating source code from Selenium IDE

Saving tests

What you cannot record

Summary

Self-test questions

2. Locators

Locating elements by ID

Finding IDs of elements on the page with Firebug

Finding elements by ID

Moving elements on the page

Finding elements by name

Adding filters to the name

Finding elements by link text

Finding elements by accessing the DOM via JavaScript

Finding elements by XPath

Using direct XPath in your test

Finding elements by direct XPath

Using XPath to find the nth element of a type

Using element attributes in XPath queries

Performing partial match on attribute content

Finding an element by the text it contains

Leveraging the XPath axis with elements

Using the XPath axis

CSS selectors

Finding elements by CSS

Using child nodes to find the element

Using sibling nodes to find the element

Using CSS class attributes in CSS selectors

Using element IDs in CSS selectors

Working with elements and their attributes

Finding elements by their attributes

Performing partial matches on attributes content

Finding the nth element with CSS

Finding an element by its inner text or partial text

Summary

Self-test questions

3. Overview of the Selenium WebDriver

History of Selenium

Understanding the WebDriver architecture

The WebDriver API

The WebDriver SPI

The JSON Wire Protocol

The Selenium server

Merging of two projects

Setting up the IntelliJ IDEA project

Setting up Eclipse IDE with Java project for Selenium WebDriver and TestNG

Downloading WebDriver JAR files

Downloading and installing Eclipse

Configuring WebDriver with Eclipse

TestNG plug-in installation for Eclipse

Steps for installation

Summary

Self-test questions

4. Finding Elements

Finding elements

Finding an element on the page by its ID

Using findElementById()

Finding elements on the page by their ID

Using findElementsById()

Finding an element on the page by its name

Using findElementByName()

Finding elements on the page by their name

Using findElementsByName()

Finding an element on the page by its ClassName

Using findElementByClassName()

Finding elements on the page by their ClassName

Using findElementsByClassName()

Finding an element on the page by its XPath

Using findElementByXPath()

Finding elements on the page by their XPath

Using findElementsByXpath()

Finding an element on the page by its link text

Using findElementByLinkText()

Finding elements on the page by their link text

Using findElementsByLinkText()

Using findElement Helper methods

Finding elements using a more generic method

Using findElement()

Using findElements()

Tips and tricks

Finding if an element exists without throwing an error

Waiting for elements to appear on the page

Implicit waits

Using implicit waits

Explicit waits

Using explicit waits with Selenium WebDriver

Summary

Self-test questions

5. Design Patterns

Page objects

Setting up the test

Moving Selenium steps into private methods to make tests maintainable

Using the Page Object pattern to design tests

Using Page Factory with Page Object

Using PageFactory

LoadableComponent

Changing our Page Object to use LoadableComponent

Using LoadableComponent

Summary

Self-test questions

6. Working with WebDriver

Working with FirefoxDriver

Firefox profile preferences

Installing a Firefox add-on

Working with ChromeDriver

ChromeOptions

Working with OperaDriver

OperaProfile

Working with InternetExplorerDriver

Other important points

Summary

Self-test questions

7. Automation Framework Development and Building Utilities

Automation without framework

Automation with Framework

Test Automation Frameworks Evolution

Record/Playback

Advantages

Disadvantages

Action driven approach

Advantages

Disadvantages

Data driven approach

Advantages

Disadvantages

Keyword driven method

Advantages

Disadvantages

Hybrid

Environment specifications

Hybrid architecture design

The automation framework structure

The project folder structure

Adding a keyword to a Selenium automation framework

Form an automated test case using keywords

Steps to form an automated test case

Building your own utilities for the Selenium automation framework

Configuration and usage of the framework

Run the automation suite

Execution starts and ends

Summary

Self-test questions

8. Mobile Devices

Working with Android

Emulator

Creating an emulator

Installing the Selenium WebDriver Android Server

Installing the Android Server

Creating a test for Android

Using the Android driver

Running with OperaDriver on a mobile device

Using OperaDriver on Opera Mobile

Working with iOS

Setting up the simulator

Setting up on a real device

Creating a test for iOS devices

Using the iPhone driver

Summary

Self-test questions

9. Getting Started with the Selenium Grid

Understanding Selenium Grid

The Selenium Grid hub

Launching the hub

Adding instances to the hub

Adding a server with the defaults

Adding Selenium Remote Control for different machines

Selenium Server for different machines

Adding Selenium Server to do specific browser tasks on specific operating systems

Setting the environment when starting Selenium Remote Control

Using Selenium Grid 1 with your YAML file

Using Selenium Grid 1 configuration

Running tests against the grid

Writing tests against the grid

Running tests in parallel

Getting our tests running in parallel

Summary

Self-test questions

10. Advanced User Interactions

What is Advanced User Interactions API?

Keyboard

Mouse

The Actions class

Drag and drop

Creating an Actions method chain for dragging and dropping

Moving an element to an offset

Moving an element with a drag and drop by offset

The context click

Doing a context click

Clicking on multiple items in a select element

Selecting multiple items on a select item

Clicking and holding down the mouse

Holding the mouse button down while moving the mouse

Summary

Self-test questions

11. Working with HTML5

Working with application cache

Getting the current status of application cache

Interacting with browser connections

Seeing if the browser is online

Checking the browser status

Setting the browser offline or online

Setting the browser connection

Working with WebStorage

Local storage

Accessing localStorage

Session storage

Accessing sessionStorage

Summary

Self-test questions

12. Advanced Topics

Capturing screenshots

Capturing the base64 version of images

Image capturing as base64 strings

Saving the screenshot to bytes

Saving images to bytes

Saving a screenshot to file

Using XVFB with Selenium

Setting up XVFB server

Running tests in XVFB

Working with BrowserMob Proxy

Creating and starting a proxy

Capturing network traffic

Summary

Self-test questions

13. Migrating from Remote Control to WebDriver

WebDriverBackedSelenium

Converting tests to Selenium WebDriver using WebDriverBackedSelenium

Summary

Self-test question

A. Automation Prerequisites for Selenium Automation

About Java programming

How does Java work?

Package

Class

Objects

Importing the sample Java project in the Eclipse workspace

A simple Java program example

Inheritance

A Java program with an inheritance example

An abstract class

An example of a Java program with an abstract class

Polymorphism

Overloading

An example of a Java program with overloading

Overriding

An example of a Java program with overriding

Encapsulation

An example of a Java program using encapsulation

Constructors

An example of a Java program with a constructor chain

Interface

An example of a Java program with an interface

Abstract classes compared with interfaces

The this keyword

Data types and variables in Java

Data types

Variables

Local variables

Instance variables

Class/static variables

Type casting

Widening

Narrowing

Example on widening and narrowing

Java operators

A simple assignment operator

Arithmetic operators

Unary operators

Equality and relational operators

Conditional operators

Type comparison operator

Bitwise and bit shift operators

Operator precedence

Decision and control statements

The if statement

The if...else statement

The if...else if...else statement

The nested if...else statement

The switch statement

Loops

The while loop

The do...while loop

The for loop

The for each loop in Java

The break keyword

The continue keyword

String class functions

The charAt() function

The equalsIgnoreCase() function

The length() function

The replace() function

The substring() function

The toLowerCase() function

The toUpperCase() function

The trim() function

Collections

What is a Collections framework?

Exception handling

Types of exceptions

Exception handler components

The throw keyword

Java IO

The FileOutputStream class

The FileInputStream class

Java coding standards

Why are coding standards required?

Summary

Self-test Questions

B. Answers for Self-test Questions

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Appendix A

Index