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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

Getting started with the API

Let's start off by creating a basic Actions object that we can use to perform a series of actions, as follows:

Actions advancedActions = new Actions(driver); 

It's very simple to create. We just pass in a driver object, and we now have an Actions object available.

Let's start off by performing a couple of basic commands to give you an idea of what can be done:

WebElement anElement = driver.findElement(By.id("anElement")); 
advancedActions.moveToElement(anElement).contextClick().perform(); 

We have now created a very basic script that will move the mouse cursor to an element and then right-click on it. The Actions object allows us to queue up a series of commands that we want to execute and then perform them all at the same time. With long lists of commands, this can soon get confusing if we keep everything on the same line...

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