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You're reading from Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Unlock the full potential of Selenium WebDriver to test your web applications in a wide range of situations. The countless recipes and code examples provided ease the learning curve and provide insights into virtually every eventuality.

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2012

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849515740

Length 326 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Selenium

Concepts

Application Testing

Author (1):

UNMESH GUNDECHA

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Locating Elements FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with Selenium API

3. Controlling the Test Flow

4. Data-driven Testing

5. Using the Page Object Model

6. Extending Selenium

7. Testing on Mobile Browsers

8. Client-side Performance Testing

9. Testing HTML5 Web Applications

10. Recording Videos of Tests

11. Behavior-driven Development

Index

Web storage – testing local storage

HTML5 introduced a more secure and faster way of storing data locally within the user's browser from the Web application. Earlier, this was done with cookies. This data is not included with every server request, but used ONLY when asked for. It is also possible to store large amounts of data without affecting the website's performance. The data is stored in key/value pairs, and a web application can only access data stored by itself.

HTML5 provides a localStorage interface through JavaScript that stores the data with no expiration date. The data will not be deleted when the browser is closed, and will be available all the time. You can view this data in Google Chrome by clicking on Inspect Element | Resources tab.

Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Safari support web storage.

In this recipe, we will verify that a web page stores data in local storage as expected.