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Hands-On Automation Testing with Java for Beginners

You're reading from   Hands-On Automation Testing with Java for Beginners Build automation testing frameworks from scratch with Java

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789534603
Length 156 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rahul Shetty Rahul Shetty
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. First Programming Steps in Java 2. Understanding Classes, Objects, and Their Usage in Java FREE CHAPTER 3. Handling Strings and Their Functions in Java 4. Building Blocks for Java Programs – Loops and Conditions 5. Everything You Need to Know About Interfaces and Inheritance 6. Learn Everything about Arrays 7. Understanding Date Class and Constructors in Java 11 8. Importance of the super and this Keywords and Exceptions in Java 9. Understanding the Collections Framework 10. The Importance of the final Keyword, Packages, and Modifiers 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

The List collection


The first one is the List collection/interface. A list is an ordered collection, sometimes we call it as a sequence as well. Lists may contain duplicate elements, just like arrays, but there are lots of differences between an array and ArrayList. You can insert multiple values into this List container, and it might contain duplicate elements as well. You can actually add any value and remove any value from any index. Let's say you added 15 elements sequentially into the list, now you want to remove 6th element, or you want to insert an element between the 10th and 11th elements, or you want to know an element at what index it is out of those 15 elements. There are lots of helpful APIs to retrieve elements from the list container, which we don't get in arrays. Arrays can only be initialized; apart from that, you cannot perform any methods on an array, whereas with ArrayList you have lots of flexible methods to play around with.

The List interface is a collection, and ArrayList...

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