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Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices Build a powerful, stable, and automated test suite using Selenium WebDriver

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783982707
Length 270 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dima Kovalenko Dima Kovalenko
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Writing the First Test FREE CHAPTER 2. The Spaghetti Pattern 3. Refactoring Tests 4. Data-driven Testing 5. Stabilizing the Tests 6. Testing the Behavior 7. The Page Objects Pattern 8. Growing the Test Suite A. Getting Started with Selenium Index

Frequently Asked Questions


Even though this book is about writing tests in Selenium, most of the ideas and topics apply to test automation in general. Having said that, Selenium is not necessarily the best solution for every problem that comes along. In this section, I would like to discuss some of the most common questions I've heard asked. We will discuss each scenario, followed by problems most commonly associated with that scenario and a possible solution or possible solutions that may apply.

How to test on multiple browsers?

Testing in multiple browsers is by far the most frustrating part of working with Selenium. Certain browsers cause more problems than others by default; I'm looking at Internet Explorer. There have been multiple situations where Firefox and Chrome build would pass but Internet Explorer build will fail due to idiosyncrasies in how Microsoft decided to interpreted common web standards.

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More and more web applications are hosted in Unix-like environments. Thus, the...

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