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Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition

You're reading from   Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition Leverage the power of Selenium to build your own real-time test cases from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784396497
Length 318 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Raghavendra Prasad MG Raghavendra Prasad MG
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Selenium IDE FREE CHAPTER 2. Locators 3. Overview of the Selenium WebDriver 4. Finding Elements 5. Design Patterns 6. Working with WebDriver 7. Automation Framework Development and Building Utilities 8. Mobile Devices 9. Getting Started with the Selenium Grid 10. Advanced User Interactions 11. Working with HTML5 12. Advanced Topics 13. Migrating from Remote Control to WebDriver A. Automation Prerequisites for Selenium Automation B. Answers for Self-test Questions Index

Adding Selenium Server to do specific browser tasks on specific operating systems


Selenium Grid is extremely powerful when we start using different browsers on the grid, since we can't run all the different browsers on a single machine due to operating systems and browser combinations. There are currently up to nine different combinations that are used by most people, so getting Selenium Grid to help with this can give you the test coverage that you need.

To do this, we pass in the –browser argument in a command-line call. Let's see how we can set the items.

Setting the environment when starting Selenium Remote Control

Now that we need to get Internet Explorer Selenium Remote Controls added to our grid, we have to add the –browser argument to our call with the target on the configured environments. Since we want to use Internet Explorer, we can use the IE on the Windows target:

  1. Open a console or Command Prompt.

  2. Run the following command:

    java -jar selenium-server-standalone.jar -role node  -hub...
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