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Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

You're reading from   Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing Build data-driven test frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, AppiumDriver, Java, and TestNG

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473576
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Carl Cocchiaro Carl Cocchiaro
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Preface 1. Building a Scalable Selenium Test Driver Class for Web and Mobile Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Selenium Framework Utility Classes 3. Best Practices for Building Selenium Page Object Classes 4. Defining WebDriver and AppiumDriver Page Object Elements 5. Building a JSON Data Provider 6. Developing Data-Driven Test Classes 7. Encapsulating Data in Data-Driven Testing 8. Designing a Selenium Grid 9. Third-Party Tools and Plugins 10. Working Selenium WebDriver Framework Samples

Exception handling in test classes


Exception handling is extremely important in both page object class methods and test class methods. All test methods should include throws Exception in the signature or contain a try...catch block to handle the exceptions (checked exceptions), and the @BeforeMethod/@AfterMethod methods should query results and clean up if necessary. Let's look at a couple of scenarios that handle exceptions in test methods.

Note

Here is a link to the most common Selenium exceptions: https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/py/common/selenium.common.exceptions.html.

Test methods

When we developed Java utility and page object classes, we added exception handling to the methods. In some cases, methods can include specific exception types or just throw general exception conditions. Users often use the try...catch...finally syntax to trap exceptions and handle them using a custom set of actions, but using this syntax should not be exclusive. We want exceptions to occur implicitly...

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