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Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

You're reading from   Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing Build data-driven test frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, AppiumDriver, Java, and TestNG

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473576
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Building a Scalable Selenium Test Driver Class for Web and Mobile Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Selenium Framework Utility Classes 3. Best Practices for Building Selenium Page Object Classes 4. Defining WebDriver and AppiumDriver Page Object Elements 5. Building a JSON Data Provider 6. Developing Data-Driven Test Classes 7. Encapsulating Data in Data-Driven Testing 8. Designing a Selenium Grid 9. Third-Party Tools and Plugins 10. Working Selenium WebDriver Framework Samples

Standards for using dynamic locators

There will always be a set of standard objects on a page that remain static each time you navigate to the page. Those are the elements you define up-front in the page object classes: buttons, links, tables, text fields, drop-down lists, logos, and so on.

Now, say you have a page that you create dynamic elements on, such as accounts, servers, settings, or let's just say "widgets". Each time your set of tests runs, it creates all different types of widgets with various preferences, names, timestamps, and so on.

You certainly don't want to clutter up your page objects with a bunch of static elements that the data must match each time you test. In this case, you can build the dynamic locators on the fly using partial string matches of the widgets in the list, table, or page.

In this section, we will cover using single and multiple...

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