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Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0

You're reading from   Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 Boost the performance and reliability of your automated checks by mastering Selenium WebDriver

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Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788299671
Length 376 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Creating a Fast Feedback Loop 2. Producing the Right Feedback When Failing FREE CHAPTER 3. Exceptions Are Actually Oracles 4. The Waiting Game 5. Working with Effective Page Objects 6. Utilizing the Advanced User Interactions API 7. JavaScript Execution with Selenium 8. Keeping It Real 9. Hooking Docker into Selenium 10. Selenium – the Future 11. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: Contributing to Selenium 1. Appendix B: Working with JUnit 2. Appendix C: Introduction to Appium

Baking in reliability

How can we try to enforce reliability and make sure that these changes are picked up early?

We could ask our developers to run the tests before every push, but sometimes people forget. Maybe they didn't forget, but it's a small change and it doesn't seem worth going through a full test run for something so minor (have you ever heard somebody say, "It's only a CSS change...?"). Making sure that the tests are run, and pass before every push to the centralized source code repository, takes discipline.

What do we do if our team lacks discipline? What if we still keep getting failures that should have been easily caught, even after we have asked people to run the tests before they push code to the central repository? If nothing else works, we could have a discussion with the developers about enforcing this rule.

This is actually surprisingly...

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Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition
Published in: Jun 2018
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788299671
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