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Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices
Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices

Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices: Build a powerful, stable, and automated test suite using Selenium WebDriver

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Selenium WebDriver is a global leader in automated web testing. It empowers users to perform complex testing scenarios with its simple and powerful interface. This guide will provide you with all the skills you need to successfully create a functional Selenium test suite. Starting from the very beginning of the Selenium IDE, this book will show you how to transition into a real programing language such as Ruby or Java. You will quickly learn how to improve your code quality with refactoring and the skills needed to plan for the future development of your website to future-proof your test suite. With ample test examples running against a life-like e-commerce store and detailed step-by-step code review and explanations, you will be ready to test any challenge web developers might throw your way. This book is intended for anyone who wants to create a test suite that is easy to maintain by expanding your knowledge until you feel truly confident and comfortable with Selenium.

What you will learn

  • Control Selenium WebDriver within any major programing language such as Java, Ruby, Python, and .NET
  • Learn how to implement a simple test script or a complex Page Objects framework
  • Set up each test to automatically deal with AJAX and jQuery
  • Remove test instabilities by blocking thirdparty services
  • Deal with data uncertainties by using fixtures, JSON APIs, and API stubbing
  • Improve your test suite continuously by refactoring code and using the DRY principle
  • Stabilize your tests by using patterns such as the Action Wrapper and Black Hole Proxy patterns

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Table of Contents

10 Chapters
1. Writing the First Test Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. The Spaghetti Pattern Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Refactoring Tests Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Data-driven Testing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Stabilizing the Tests Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Testing the Behavior Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. The Page Objects Pattern Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Growing the Test Suite Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A. Getting Started with Selenium Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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Josiah D. Weaver Nov 13, 2014
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About time someone published something easy like this! I've been searching youtube and google for the last year trying to build a test environment! There's a lot of guys out there who are willing to help you out while building, but it's nice to finally be the guy people ask! This book really kicks things off from the ground up, teaching you a ton of the underlying concepts to get you building and testing pronto! Couldn't put it down my first week!
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Felipe da Silva Jan 11, 2020
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Good book.
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Dragan Nikolic Aug 13, 2015
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Great book for learning Selenium and Ruby, and what is even more important for learning best test automation practices along the way.
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Yev Nov 23, 2014
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To begin with, in my opinion this book is for more experienced developers who are ready to take Selenium testing to the next level.I’ve been exposed to programming for about 2 years, starting with Ruby and currently learning some Java. While this book focuses primarily on using Ruby as the preferred language, have no doubt that Selenium can be used with Java as well.One of the strongest points of this technical book is that the author can convey advantages as well as disadvantages in a clear and concise manner. I have found that this helps greatly to see what is important and seeing possible downsides to a chosen path.Through showing us how software testing works from the first chapter, the author leads us through various examples and patterns in the current world of testing. It is up to date and includes relevant information now in 2014.In addition to explaining testing with the Selenium suite, the author also focuses on code reuse and refactoring, which will further help you grow as a programmer/developer. In Chapter 4, he also explains in depth test data and the various nuances associated with it.As the author states, you should be able to follow along the examples in this book with relative ease, but if you can’t the appendix will help you with setting up Ruby on your computer, how to use the command line interface, installing the Selenium Webdriver gem, as well as getting it to work in Firefox. His examples are honed by years of experience in software testing, so everything is explained as simply as possible for a beginner or an experienced developer. The screenshots will help you immensely to see what the author means and overall, will provide for an enjoyable experience reading this software testing book.I have found that this book not only taught me about Selenium testing, but also broadened my knowledge about Ruby programming as well as browser elements and using the Selenium plug in to the fullest in Firefox. There is much to be learned about the browser locator in Chapter 2 as well, which I highly recommend to review.In the test data chapter, the author clearly and concisely explains to the reader what kinds of data is available and the benefits/disadvantages of each. What I really liked is that the author touches on topics about BDD, Rspec, as well as Cucumber and CI tools.In conclusion, I would highly recommend this guide to anyone already testing or looking to start testing in the open source tool that is Selenium. In addition, you will learn many helpful tips for software development in general, like I have. I look forward to any future works by this author.
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Janette Rounds Oct 12, 2019
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Very basic introduction. Not that good for experienced test automators. Nothing was wrong or invalid, I just was hoping for something more advanced that covered more modern trends in test automation.
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