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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Second Edition

You're reading from   Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Second Edition Over 90 recipes to help you build and run automated tests for your web applications with Selenium WebDriver

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784392512
Length 374 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Finding Elements FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Elements 4. Working with Selenium API 5. Synchronizing Tests 6. Working with Alerts, Frames, and Windows 7. Data-Driven Testing 8. Using the Page Object Model 9. Extending Selenium 10. Testing HTML5 Web Applications 11. Behavior-Driven Development 12. Integration with Other Tools 13. Cross-Browser Testing 14. Testing Applications on Mobile Browsers Index

Setting up Selenium Grid Server for parallel execution

To run Selenium WebDriver tests in parallel, we need to set up the Selenium Grid Server as a Hub. The Selenium Server hub will provide the available configurations or capabilities to the Selenium WebDriver tests. The slave machines, also called node, connect to the hub for parallel execution. Selenium WebDriver tests use the JSON wire protocol to talk to the Hub to execute Selenium commands.

The Hub acts like the central point that will receive the entire test request and distribute it to the right nodes.

In this recipe, we will set up a Selenium Grid Server and then add nodes with different OS and browser combinations. We will then use this setup to run tests in parallel using TestNG.

Getting ready

Download the latest Selenium Server standalone JAR file from http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/. For this recipe, the selenium-server-standalone-2.47.1 version is used.

How to do it...

Setting up a Hub is a fairly simple job. Launch the Selenium...

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