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Selenium WebDriver Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Selenium WebDriver Quick Start Guide Write clear, readable, and reliable tests with Selenium WebDriver 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612486
Length 192 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pinakin Chaubal Pinakin Chaubal
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Selenium WebDriver and Environment Setup FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding the Document Object Model and Creating Customized XPaths 3. Basic Selenium Commands and Their Usage in Building a Framework 4. Handling Popups, Frames, and Alerts 5. Synchronization 6. The Actions Class and JavascriptExecutor 7. The Command Pattern and Creating Components 8. Hybrid Framework 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing the command design pattern

The command design pattern is a behavioral design pattern that involves four players, as in the following example:

  • Client
  • Invoker
  • Command
  • Receiver

In very simple words, the receiver is the object on screen such as a textbox and button and the command is sendKeys and click. We encapsulate the command in an object and pass it to the receiver.

The actual command design pattern also supports an Undo operation, but we will not consider the Undo operation here. By using command objects, it becomes easier to build generic components that need to assign, delegate, or execute method calls without needing to know the class of the method or the method parameters. Using an invoker object allows command executions to be conveniently performed. Using this, we can also create different modes for commands that are handled by the invoker object without...

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