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Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide

You're reading from   Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide End-to-end automation testing for web and mobile browsers with Selenium WebDriver

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788999762
Length 280 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Satya Avasarala Satya Avasarala
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Pallavi Sharma Pallavi Sharma
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UNMESH GUNDECHA UNMESH GUNDECHA
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing WebDriver and WebElements 2. Different Available WebDrivers FREE CHAPTER 3. Using Java 8 Features with Selenium 4. Exploring the Features of WebDriver 5. Exploring Advanced Interactions of WebDriver 6. Understanding WebDriver Events 7. Exploring RemoteWebDriver 8. Setting up Selenium Grid 9. The PageObject Pattern 10. Mobile Testing on iOS and Android using Appium 11. Data-Driven Testing with TestNG 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Handling cookies

Let's say you are automating the demo application. There could be many scenarios you want to automate, such as searching for products, adding products to the shopping cart, checkout, returns, and so on. For all these actions, one common thing is to have to log into the demo application in each of the test cases. So, logging into the application in every test case of yours will increase the overall test execution time significantly. To reduce the execution time of your test cases, you can actually skip signing in for every test case. This can be done by signing in once and writing all the cookies of that domain into a file. From the next login onward, you can actually load the cookies from the file and add them to the driver.

To fetch all the cookies that are loaded for a web page, WebDriver provides the following method:

driver.manage().getCookies()

This...

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