You're reading from A Frontend Web Developer's Guide to Testing Explore leading web test automation frameworks and their future driven by low-code and AI

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803238319

Length 304 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Selenium

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Eran Kinsbruner

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Frontend Web Testing Overview

2. Chapter 1: Cross-Browser Testing Methodologies FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Challenges Faced by Frontend Web Application Developers

4. Chapter 3: Top Web Test Automation Frameworks

5. Chapter 4: Matching Personas and Use Cases to Testing Frameworks

6. Chapter 5: Introducing the Leading Frontend Web Development Frameworks

7. Part 2 – Continuous Testing Strategy for Web Application Developers

8. Chapter 6: Map the Pillars of a Dev Testing Strategy for Web Applications

9. Chapter 7: Core Capabilities of the Leading JavaScript Test Automation Frameworks

10. Chapter 8: Measuring Test Coverage of the Web Application

11. Part 3 – Frontend JavaScript Web Test Automation Framework Guides

12. Chapter 9: Working with the Selenium Framework

13. Chapter 10: Working with the Cypress Framework

14. Chapter 11: Working with the Playwright Framework

15. Chapter 12: Working with the Puppeteer Framework

16. Chapter 13: Complementing Code-Based Testing with Low-Code Test Automation

17. Chapter 14: Wrapping Up

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Getting started with the Selenium WebDriver framework

To get started with Selenium, you'll need to follow a number of steps that include the installation of the framework, as well as setting up the grid for the specific browser drivers on which you would like to run your tests (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge).

Your main website to learn from and get started with Selenium is https://www.selenium.dev/. From this link, you will be able to download the relevant driver, see the latest release notes, obtain documentation and code samples, and more.

As you'll learn in this chapter, and even more so later in this book, the Selenium framework consists of three main components:

Selenium WebDriver: This is a collection of several language bindings to drive different browsers for testing purposes, as well as the individual browsers controlling code.
Selenium Grid: This is a Selenium framework component that is designed to distribute and scale test automation by running...