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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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Product type Paperback
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

Building user interaction into your automation

We don't always use automation for writing tests. Sometimes we also want to automate repetitive tasks. A lot of these repetitive tasks can be easily automated, whereas others are not completely repetitive and require some form of user input that regularly changes. How useful would it be to be able to write a Selenium script that can take some user input so that you don't need to keep rewriting the script for that regular task you have to perform?

Well, we can do that; let's put together an example. First of all, we are going to write a snippet of JavaScript that will allow us to insert an input field into a page:

var dataInput = document.createElement('div');
dataInput.id = "se_temp_markup";
dataInput.setAttribute("style","width: 200px; height: 100px; background-color: yellow; z-index...
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