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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

You're reading from   Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Unlock the full potential of Selenium WebDriver to test your web applications in a wide range of situations. The countless recipes and code examples provided ease the learning curve and provide insights into virtually every eventuality.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849515740
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Locating Elements FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Selenium API 3. Controlling the Test Flow 4. Data-driven Testing 5. Using the Page Object Model 6. Extending Selenium 7. Testing on Mobile Browsers 8. Client-side Performance Testing 9. Testing HTML5 Web Applications 10. Recording Videos of Tests 11. Behavior-driven Development Index

Introduction


With the increasing adoption of Smartphones and tablets, mobile applications have taken a center stage. Everyone is talking about iPhone, iPad, and Android. It has become essential to build/migrate and test applications for these platforms.

Selenium supports testing web applications in mobile web browsers. In this chapter, we will cover recipes for configuring and using Selenium for testing applications on iOS and Android-based phones and tablets.

We can run automated tests on a simulator/emulator or on a real device using iOS and Android drivers. These drivers implement the RemoteWebDriver for enabling testing through the WebDriver. Both these drivers provide an application that implements RemoteWebDriver server and a lightweight HTTP server. These applications can be installed on a simulator/emulator or on a device for testing.

We will test a mobile web application developed using jQuery mobile on these platforms.

IPhoneDriver architecture

The IPhoneDriver allows running automated...

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