Test-Driven Java Development, Second Edition - Second Edition

Selenide

What we have seen about Selenium is very cool. It brings the opportunity to probe that our application is doing things well, but sometimes it is a bit tricky to configure and use. Selenide is a project based on Selenium that offers a good syntax for writing tests and makes them more readable. It hides the usage of WebDriver and configurations from you, while still maintaining a high-level of customization:

1. Like all the other libraries we have used until now, the first step is to add the Gradle dependency:

dependencies { 
    testCompile 'com.codeborne:selenide:2.17' 
}

2. Let's see how we can write the previous Selenium test using Selenide instead. The syntax might be familiar to for those who know JQuery (https://jquery.com/):

public ...