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Learn to leverage the power of Selenium WebDriver with simple examples that illustrate real world problems and their workarounds

Each sample demonstrates key concepts allowing you to advance your knowledge of Selenium WebDriver in a practical and incremental way

Explains testing of mobile web applications with Selenium Drivers for platforms such as iOS and Android

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Web technologies are becoming increasingly complex and there is a need to test your web applications against a vast number of browsers and platforms, so you need to build highly reliable and maintainable test automation. This book will help you test your web applications effectively and efficiently with Selenium WebDriver."Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook" is an incremental guide that will help you learn and use advanced features of Selenium WebDriver API in various situations for building reliable test automation. You will learn how to effectively use features of Selenium using simple and detailed examples. This book will also teach you best practices, design patterns, and how to extend Selenium."Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook" shows developers and testers who already use Selenium, how to go to the next step and build a highly maintainable and reliable test framework using advanced features of the tool.The book starts with tips on advanced location strategy and effective use of Selenium WebDriver API. Then it demonstrates the use of design patterns such as Data Driven Tests and PageFactory for building maintainable test automation. It also explains extending Selenium WebDriver API along with implementing custom tasks and setting up your own distributed environment to run tests in parallel.It concludes with tips on integrating Selenium WebDriver with other popular tools, testing mobile web applications, and capturing videos of test runs. This books provides examples in Java, C#, Ruby, and Python."Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook" will help you in building a highly robust and maintainable test automation framework from start to finish.

What you will learn

Understand Locators and use various locator methods to build reliable tests

Build reliable and maintainable tests with Selenium WebDriver API

Use PageFactory Pattern to build a robust and easy- to-maintain test framework

Build data driven tests and extend Selenium API to implement custom steps and checks

Learn to integrate and use ATDD/BDD tools such as JBehave, SpecFlow, and FitNesses with Selenium WebDriver

Set up iPhone/iPad & Android simulators and devices for testing your mobile web application

Set up Selenium Grid for faster and parallel run of tests, increasing test coverage and reducing test execution time

Capture screenshots and videos of test runs

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kotoko Mar 02, 2015

Very well written for someone who is beginning to learn working on Selenium as well as advancing to refining and enhancing knowledge. It presents a good information recipe to accomplish functional test scripts. It also, easy to understand for technical and non-technical

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Roy Fine Feb 10, 2014

If you are doing automated web testing, you should consider Selenium. Not a lot of info in the book that cannot be found online, but having it handy on my Kindle is well worth the modest price of the book. Note - the books works very nicely with Kindle HD and Kindle PC AppThe book is full of "How to do" cases with complete details, and at the end of each there is a "How it works" sections.Selenium API are available to supports several languages: Java, C#, Python, and others I suspect. All of our test work is driven from python - and fortunate for us there were plenty of plenty of python based examples in the bookIf you have experience in one of the driver languages, and if you are accomplished enough to have developed a website with more than just one page, then this book is a good first read. Others have noted it is not for the beginner - but I found it well written and detailed enough for the average web developer.

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M. Zuzic Jul 14, 2013

I read this book cover to cover over the space of a week, which is the first time I've ever read an entire techical book before.You will benefit largely to have an understanding of programming languages when reading this book. In my case, I have a software development background and an automated test development background which must be why I found the book so interesting.I have started to apply the concepts detailed in the book to my current project which is proving to be a fantastic basis for a highly maintainable and well structured framework.Well done to the author, I will certainly cnsider future updates as Selenium evolves

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Michael Larsen Jan 21, 2013

As the experience level with Selenium and other open source automation tools grows, naturally there will also develop more questions. How would I effectively access elements? What's a good way to compartmentalize tests? How can I make my tests extensible? What's the best way to parallelize tests? What if my project doesn't use a standard approach like so many others? What if I'm not on Linux, or don't use Java?The idea and benefit of a "Cookbook" approach is that it allows developers and testers to look at the aspects that they need at that time, and see how they work in example formats, and then see how they relate to other topics. Packt has decided to take this approach with Selenium by publishing the Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook. In it, author Unmesh Gundecha has broken down thirteen areas of interest (eleven in the book itself, plus two additional areas as bonus download sections), and presents small sections and ideas to allow the developer or tester to leverage the ability to create tests, use the Selenium API, and test applications such as browsers and mobile applications. The book demonstrates examples primarily in Java, but several are provided that use C#, Python and Ruby.For the tl;dr crowd, if you have never used Selenium before, this should not be the book to start your exploration. I would suggest reading David Burns "Selenium 2 Testing Tools Beginner's Guide" or Alan Richardson's "Selenium Simplified" first. David's book is also a Packt Publishing title, and uses many of the same documentation standards, so it would feel very natural looking at section's of David's book, and then coming back to try out more examples in Unmesh's Cookbook here.As this is a Cookbook style title, I must give a disclaimer that I have not yet tried every single example in the book. For that matter, I haven't gone through even a minority of the examples, and that's OK. Cookbook's are not designed to be read from cover to cover, and neither is this one. It is expected, and intended, that the user pick an area that interested them, and explore that area. Different projects have different needs, and being able to skip around will help focus the reader's time on the areas that matter most to them at that given time.Each chapter uses a similar structure, with an introduction to explain the tools and calls that will be used in that section. The given recipe is described and gives the reader an idea as to what can be done (along with sample code for each of the recipes, which can be downloaded from Packt's site if you prefer to see the projects in their entirety, and would rather not have to type out the examples from the book directly. Each item then goes through and describes what you will need to accomplish the project at hand (if you need tools like Firebug or Intellij IDEA, it tells you what you need and where to get them). The recipe concludes with a How it Works section, and in many cases, additional recipes that relate to the one you are working with.The book starts out with locating elements, and the different ways in which that can be accomplished (CSS, XPath, text values, jQuery, locating table rows and cells, etc.).Next the Selenium API is explored and the various methods available to examine and determine what you are looking at (text, attributes, CSS values, interacting with the mouse and keyboard, using JavaScript, capturing screenshots, drop downs and menu items, even going in and changing values in the Windows Registry if desired).Chapters Three and Four will be important to testers especially, since these chapters deal with test flow and ways to create data driven tests. Topics such as waiting for elements, handling pop-ups, determining if elements are the correct state, working with JavaScript alerts, handling frames and iFRAME's, plus using a variety of frameworks to interact with tests and set up data driven tests in these frameworks are explored, with examples for Java, win32, Ruby and Python.Chapter Five talks about the Page Object model and how to use it when developing your tests in the languages covered in the book (Java especially, but examples also show how to use .NET, Python and Ruby).Chapter Six gets into some examples of how to extend selenium and shows some in depth examples using Java (examples include making an extension class for web tables, jQueryUI Tab widget, creating an object map for Selenium tests, capturing screenshots and comparing images).Chapter Seven Shows how to perform mobile testing using Selenium, and some of the tools and ways to automate tests on iPhone an Android devices using RemoteWebDriver and other tools, such as the iWebDriver App to be used on a simulator or real device, or AndroidDriver on an android Simulator or device)Chapter Eight demonstrates some examples of how to get a handle on the Performance aspects of your sites or applications. Using timers, accessing and using BrowserMob proxy, and integrating with dynaTrace or HttpWatch are likewise covered. For the Ruby users among us, an example with Watir-WebDriver-Performance is demonstrated.Chapter Nine covers HTML5 and some of the unique tools provided with HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3, such as video widgets, canvas and web storage, and how to interact with those elements.Chapter Ten shows a number of ways in which a user could Record a Video of a Test (not record and playback of a test, actually recording an instance of the test being run as a video file, so it can be reviewed later. Tools such as the Monte Media Library (Java), Microsoft Expression Encoder (.NET) and Castro (Python) are demonstrated.Chapter Eleven discusses Behavior Driven Development (BDD). There are several different books that go into this topic at length, so for more on how this works and how to leverage that aspect, you will definitely want to read more than this single chapter. Still, if you are interested in how BDD can be performed in different environments, this will be of interest. The goal of TDD is meant to be a way to write test cases in a more natural language that those who do not program can both read and, in some cases, create themselves. Ruby users will find examples using Cucumber and Cabybara. Java users will see examples using Cucumber-JVM and JBehave. .NET uses will see examples using SpecFlow.NET.Two additional chapters, Integration with Other Tools and Distributed Testing with Selenium Grid are not included with the book itself, but can be downloaded from the Packt site. these deal with integrating with tools like Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA, as well as using Ant and Maven for Continuous Integration, as well as parallelization of tests using Selenium Grid.Bottom Line:We now have a number of titles to help users get into the world of Selenium and SeleniumWebDrier. Each of these titles, by necessity, can only go so deep and with so many examples. For many, that would be fine. For those who want to know "what's next" or "where could I take these ideas and expand on them" or even "can you give me some ideas as to where I might use the variety of options?", then Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook may be a great next step to explore. One thing's for sure, there's plenty in this book to keep the Selenium enthusiast busy for quite some time.

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Aziz Mar 15, 2014

Written for the Tester novice, this book is a concise, thorough, and accurate and helps immensely for Test Managers also.

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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook: Unlock the full potential of Selenium WebDriver to test your web applications in a wide range of situations. The countless recipes and code examples provided ease the learning curve and provide insights into virtually every eventuality.

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