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Learn Selenium

You're reading from   Learn Selenium Build data-driven test frameworks for mobile and web applications with Selenium Web Driver 3

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Product type Course
Published in Jul 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838983048
Length 536 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright Contributors About Packt Preface 1. Introducing WebDriver and WebElements 2. Using Java 8 Features with Selenium FREE CHAPTER 3. Exploring the Features of WebDriver 4. Exploring Advanced Interactions of WebDriver 5. Understanding WebDriver Events 6. Exploring RemoteWebDriver 7. Setting up Selenium Grid 8. Data-Driven Testing with TestNG 9. Building a Scalable Selenium Test Driver Class for Web and Mobile Applications 10. Selenium Framework Utility Classes 11. Best Practices for Building Selenium Page Object Classes 12. Defining WebDriver and AppiumDriver Page Object Elements 13. Building a JSON Data Provider 14. Developing Data-Driven Test Classes 15. Encapsulating Data in Data-Driven Testing 16. Designing a Selenium Grid 17. Third-Party Tools and Plugins 18. Working Selenium WebDriver Framework Samples 1. Assessments 2. Other Books You May Enjoy

The singleton driver class

In this section, a Java singleton class will be used to create the driver class. This will force the user to use the same object for all instances where the WebDriver is required. The WebDriver events will never get out of sync during the run, and all WebDriver events will get sent to the correct browser or mobile device instance. And since the instance of the class is created on a single thread, referencing it won't interfere with other WebDriver instances running on the same node simultaneously.

As per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_pattern):

"In software engineering, the singleton pattern is a software design pattern that restricts the instantiation of a class to one object. This is useful when exactly one object is needed to coordinate actions across the system. The concept is sometimes generalized to systems...
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