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You're reading from Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide End-to-end automation testing for web and mobile browsers with Selenium WebDriver

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788999762

Length 280 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Selenium

Concepts

Application Testing

Authors (3):

Satya Avasarala

Pallavi Sharma

UNMESH GUNDECHA

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing WebDriver and WebElements

2. Different Available WebDrivers FREE CHAPTER

3. Using Java 8 Features with Selenium

4. Exploring the Features of WebDriver

5. Exploring Advanced Interactions of WebDriver

6. Understanding WebDriver Events

7. Exploring RemoteWebDriver

8. Setting up Selenium Grid

9. The PageObject Pattern

10. Mobile Testing on iOS and Android using Appium

11. Data-Driven Testing with TestNG

12. Assessments

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Chapter 8

Which argument can be used to specify how many browser instances can be supported by the node?

maxInstances.

Explain how Selenium Grid can be used to support Cross Browser Testing.

With Selenium Grid, we can set up nodes for various Browser and Operating System combinations and run tests in a distributed architecture. Based on capabilities provided by the test, Selenium Grid selects the appropriate node and executes the test on the selected node. We can add as many nodes as required based on combinations we want to test as per the cross-browser testing matrix required for testing.

What is the URL you need to specify with RemoteWebDriver to run tests on Selenium Grid?

http://gridHostnameOrIp:4444/wd/hub.

Selenium Grid Hub acts as a load balancer: True or False?

True. Selenium Grid Hub distributes tests on multiple nodes based on the availability of the node

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Authors (3)

Sharma

Tushar Sharma has a master's degree specializing in data science from the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. He works as a data scientist with Intel. In his previous job he used to work as a research engineer for a financial consultancy firm. His work involves handling big data at scale generated by the massive infrastructure at Intel. He engineers and delivers end to end solutions on this data using the latest machine learning tools and frameworks. He is proficient in R, Python, Spark, and mathematical aspects of machine learning among other things. Tushar has a keen interest in everything related to technology. He likes to read a wide array of books ranging from history to philosophy and beyond. He is a running enthusiast and likes to play badminton and tennis.

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UNMESH GUNDECHA

Unmesh Gundecha has over 16 years, experience in Agile software development, test automation, and DevOps methodologies. He is an Agile, open source, and DevOps evangelist with extensive experience in a diverse set of tools and technologies. He has extensive hands-on experience in building sustainable and repeatable test automation solutions for web and mobile platforms, APIs, and CLI apps with continuous integration and delivery pipelines, using best-of-breed open source and commercial tools to do so. He is the author of Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook and Learning Selenium Testing Tools with Python, both by Packt Publishing.

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Avasarala

Satya Avasarala has rich experience in Java development and automation testing. He is an engineer in computer science. He has used WebDriver for many years now and has created several good automation frameworks. He has worked at various large software enterprises such as Oracle Corp, Yahoo! Inc., VMware Inc., and the REA Group. In addition, he is also interested in Service Oriented Architectural design and Business Intelligence. He is an Oracle-certified Service Oriented Architecture Infrastructure Implementation Expert and a Business Intelligence Foundation Suite Implementation Specialist.

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