Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

This is a cookbook packed with code examples and step-by-step instructions to ease your learning curve. This book is intended for software quality assurance/testing professionals, software project managers, or software developers with prior experience in using Selenium and Java for testing web-based applications. This book also provides examples for C#, Python, and Ruby users.

Over 90 recipes to help you build and run automated tests for your web applications with Selenium WebDriverAbout This Book• Learn to leverage the power of Selenium WebDriver with simple examples that illustrate real-world problems and their workarounds• Explains the testing of mobile applications with Appium for mobile platforms such as iOS and Android• A pragmatic manual with engaging recipes and attractive screenshots to test your web applications efficientlyWho This Book Is ForThis book is intended for software quality assurance/testing professionals, software project managers, or software developers with prior experience in using Selenium and Java to test web-based applications. This books also provides examples for C#, Python and Ruby users.What You Will Learn• Understand how the locators work and use various locator methods to build reliable tests• Build reliable and maintainable tests with the Selenium WebDriver API• Use the 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• Integrate and use ATDD/BDD tools such as Cucumber, SpecFlow, Capybara, and Behave with the Selenium WebDriver API• Set up iPhone/iPad and Android simulators and devices to test your mobile web application with Appium• Set up Selenium Grid for faster and parallel running of tests, increasing test coverage and reducing test execution time for cross-browser testing• Build extended Selenium WebDriver tests for additional coverageIn DetailThis book is an incremental guide that will help you learn and use the advanced features of the Selenium toolset including the WebDriver API in various situations to build a reliable test automation. You start off by setting up the test development environment and gain tips on the advanced locater strategy and the effective use of the Selenium WebDriver API.After that, the use of design patterns such as data - driven tests and PageFactory are demonstrated. You will then be familiarised with extending Selenium WebDriver API by implementing custom tasks and setting up your own distributed environment to run tests in parallel for cross-browser testing.Finally, we give you some tips on integrating Selenium WebDriver with other popular tools and testing mobile applications. By the end of this book, you will have learned enough to solve complex testing issues on your own.Style and approachThis recipe-based guide covers real-life scenarios of testing your web apps with Selenium. Each recipe begins with a short introduction and key concepts along with illustrated examples of use cases, and ends with detailed but informative descriptions of the inner workings of the example.

This book is written in Beginner's Guide style which emphasizes the concept of learning by doing. The book is packed with examples and code so that you can get the best out of this book. If you are a Software Quality Assurance professional, Software Project Manager, or a Software Developer interested in automated testing using Selenium, this book is for you. Web-based application developers will also benefit from this book.

This book gives you an arsenal of Python scripts perfect to use or to customize your needs for each stage of the testing process. Each chapter takes you step by step through the methods of designing and modifying scripts to attack web apps. You will learn how to collect both open and hidden information from websites to further your attacks, identify vulnerabilities, perform SQL Injections, exploit cookies, and enumerate poorly configured systems. You will also discover how to crack encryption, create payloads to mimic malware, and create tools to output your findings into presentable formats for reporting to your employers.

Selenium WebDriver 3 is the latest version used by many professionals for automated testing. The book will guide you through various Selenium WebDriver APIs and provide solutions to the common challenges faced while using Selenium WebDriver. You will learn to use remote WebDriver to run tests on remote machines for cross-browser testing and ...

If you are a quality testing professional, or a software or web application developer looking to create automation test scripts for your web applications, with an interest in Python, then this is the perfect guide for you. Python developers who need to do Selenium testing need not learn Java, as they can directly use Selenium for testing with this book.

Written in an engaging, easy-to-follow style, this practical guide will teach you to create test suites and automated acceptance Tests with the Robot Framework.If you are an automation engineer, QA engineer, developer or tester who is looking to get started with Robot Framework, as well as find a standardized testing solution, this book is ideal for you. No prior knowledge of Robot Framework or acceptance testing is required, although a basic knowledge of Python is required for few sections of the book.

Learn how Appium is implemented in Java and integrated with tools, such as TestNG, Cucumber, Maven, Jenkins and Selenium Grid to create test automation frameworks. With these frameworks, you can test mobile apps on simulators or real devices and create CICD pipelines. This brief book focuses on using Appium for automation on both Android and iOS platforms. Appium Recipes illustrates test automation framework and Cloud Test Lab scenarios that will empower you to take full advantage of Appium's critical features to achieve continuous integration and deployments in your live projects. Readers will also learn about mobile-specific actions such as Swipe, Scroll, and Tap, and mobile-specific locators such as iOSUIAutomator. What You'll Learn: Set up Appium for mobile, Web and Hybrid App Automation Use mobile-specific actions, such as Swipe, Scroll, and Tap Work with mobile-specific locators, such as iOSUIAutomator Integrate Appium with Selenium Grid and Cloud Test Labs, such as Perfecto and Sauce Labs Who This Book Is For: Readers familiar with the basic concepts of test automation, mobile landscape, core java programming (basic)and maven, and Appium.