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Selenium WebDriver Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Selenium WebDriver Quick Start Guide Write clear, readable, and reliable tests with Selenium WebDriver 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612486
Length 192 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pinakin Chaubal Pinakin Chaubal
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Selenium WebDriver and Environment Setup FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding the Document Object Model and Creating Customized XPaths 3. Basic Selenium Commands and Their Usage in Building a Framework 4. Handling Popups, Frames, and Alerts 5. Synchronization 6. The Actions Class and JavascriptExecutor 7. The Command Pattern and Creating Components 8. Hybrid Framework 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing the WebDriverManager library

One constraint in Selenium automation is that we need to download the driver binary executable for Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. After downloading the executable files for Java, the absolute path of this executable file has to be set to JVM properties using System.setProperty. This was an overhead which has been removed with the introduction of a library called WebDriverManager.

Remember to use JDK 1.8 with this library. It won't work with JDK 1.7.

With this library, there is no need to download the individual binaries for the different browsers. Earlier, we had to manage the versions of the binaries manually. With this library, this gets handled automatically.

How to use the WebDriverManager library

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