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Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#, Second Edition
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Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#, Second Edition

by Zhimin Zhan
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
3h
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 21

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Optimization

Working test scripts are just the first test step to successful test automation, as automated tests are executed often, and we all know the application changes frequently, too. Therefore, it is important that our test scripts be

  • Fast
  • Easy to read
  • Concise

In this chapter, I show some examples to optimize test scripts.

Assert string in page_source is faster than the text

To verify a piece of text on a web page, frequently for assertion, we can use driver.PageSource or driver.FindElement(By.TagName("body")).Text. Besides the obvious different output, there are major performance differences, too. To get a text view (for a whole ...

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