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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

Understanding the Selenium Grid

Up until now, we have been executing Selenium code on our local machine. But that is not a very good idea. Eventually, we are going to run our framework from Jenkins and moreover, we will be running multiple instances of Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. Here's where Selenium Grid comes to our rescue.

Selenium Grid can be used to execute code on another machine or a virtual machine. It can also be used to execute code on multiple machines. Code is executed on multiple nodes due to which the total execution time is reduced.

Let's take a look at the Selenium Grid architecture.

Architecture of the Selenium Grid

To understand Selenium Grid, we need to understand the concept of hub...

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