March 2022
Intermediate to advanced
419 pages
9h 59m
English
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Preface
Selenium is an open source umbrella project that enables the automation of web browsers. The core component of the Selenium project is Selenium WebDriver, a library for controlling browsers (e.g., Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, or Opera) programmatically. Selenium WebDriver provides a cross-browser Application Programming Interface (API) in several programming languages (officially supported in Java, JavaScript, Python, C#, or Ruby).
Although we can use Selenium WebDriver for multiple purposes related to browser automation, its primary use is implementing end-to-end tests for web application verification. Thousands of organizations and testers now use Selenium worldwide, and it is one of the leading solutions for end-to-end testing, supporting a multi-million-dollar industry.
Who Should Read This Book
This book provides a comprehensive summary of the main features of Selenium WebDriver version 4, using Java as language binding. It reviews the main aspects of automated web navigation, browser manipulation, web element interaction, user impersonation, automated driver management, the Page Object Model (POM) design pattern, use of remote and cloud infrastructure, integration with Docker and third-party tools, and much more.
The primary audience of this book includes Java coders of different levels (from beginner to advanced), such as developers, testers, QA engineers, etc. Thus, you need a basic knowledge of the Java language and object-oriented programming. The final goal ...
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