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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

Don't be afraid of the big bad stack trace

It's surprising how many people are intimidated by stack traces. A reaction that I regularly see when a stack trace appears on screen is panic!

"Oh my god! Something has gone wrong! There are hundreds of lines of text talking about code I don't recognize and I can't take it all in; what do I do?"

The first thing to do is to relax; stack traces have a lot of information but they are actually really friendly and helpful things. Let's modify our project to produce a stack trace and work through it. We are going to make a small change to the getDriver() method in DriverFactory to force it to always return null by using this code:

    public static WebDriver getDriver() { 
        return null; 
    } 

This is going to make sure that we never return a driver object, something that we would expect to cause...

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