Preface

Selenium is a set of tools used to automate browsers. It is largely used to test applications, but its usages are not limited to testing. It can also be used to perform screen scraping and automate repetitive tasks in a browser window. Selenium supports automation on all the major browsers, including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, and Opera. Selenium WebDriver is now a part of W3C standards and is supported by major browser vendors.

This book will help you learn advanced techniques to test web applications using the Selenium WebDriver API and related tools. In this book, you will learn how to test web applications effectively and efficiently with Selenium WebDriver on desktops, mobile web browsers, and in a distributed environment.

Along with the core features of Selenium WebDriver, this book also covers design patterns such as data-driven testing, page objects, and object maps, to design a highly maintainable and reliable test automation framework. You will also learn how to integrate Selenium WebDriver with ATDD/BDD, build and continuous integration tools, and perform mobile web testing with Appium.

This book also covers techniques to extend Selenium for your specific needs. There are more than 80 recipes that you can use to build or extend your existing test automation framework.