Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook - 2/e

About This Book

• Learn to leverage the power of Selenium WebDriver with simple examples that illustrate real-world problems and their workarounds
• Explains the testing of mobile applications with Appium for mobile platforms such as iOS and Android
• A pragmatic manual with engaging recipes and attractive screenshots to test your web applications efficiently

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for software quality assurance/testing professionals, software project managers, or software developers with prior experience in using Selenium and Java to test web-based applications. This books also provides examples for C#, Python and Ruby users.

What You Will Learn

• Understand how the locators work and use various locator methods to build reliable tests
• Build reliable and maintainable tests with the Selenium WebDriver API
• Use the PageFactory pattern to build a robust and easy to maintain test framework
• Build data-driven tests and extend Selenium API to implement custom steps and checks
• Integrate and use ATDD/BDD tools such as Cucumber, SpecFlow, Capybara, and Behave with the Selenium WebDriver API
• Set up iPhone/iPad and Android simulators and devices to test your mobile web application with Appium
• Set up Selenium Grid for faster and parallel running of tests, increasing test coverage and reducing test execution time for cross-browser testing
• Build extended Selenium WebDriver tests for additional coverage

About the Author

Unmesh Gundecha has a master's degree in software engineering and over 13 years of experience in software development and testing. He has architected functional test automation projects using industry-standard, in-house, and custom test automation frameworks, along with leading commercial and open source test automation tools. Presently, he is working as a test architect for a multinational company in Pune, India. Unmesh has also authored a book called Learning Selenium Testing Tools with Python, Packt Publishing.