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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

Parameterizing Tests using suite parameters

In Chapter 1, Introducing WebDriver and WebElements, we created a search test that performs a simple search on the application under test. This test searches for a given product and validates the title. We used a hardcoded value, phones, for the search, as shown in the following code snippet:

 @Test
 public void searchProduct() {

        // find search box and enter search string
        WebElement searchBox = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));

        searchBox.sendKeys("Phones");

        WebElement searchButton =
                driver.findElement(By.className("search-button"));

        searchButton.click();

        assertThat(driver.getTitle())
                .isEqualTo("Search results for: 'Phones'");
    }

Instead of using hardcoded values, we can parameterize these values and...

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