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Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices

Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Kovalenko
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Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices

Selenium Design Patterns and Best Practices

3.9 (11)
By: Kovalenko

Overview of this book

Selenium WebDriver is a global leader in automated web testing. It empowers users to perform complex testing scenarios with its simple and powerful interface. This guide will provide you with all the skills you need to successfully create a functional Selenium test suite. Starting from the very beginning of the Selenium IDE, this book will show you how to transition into a real programing language such as Ruby or Java. You will quickly learn how to improve your code quality with refactoring and the skills needed to plan for the future development of your website to future-proof your test suite. With ample test examples running against a life-like e-commerce store and detailed step-by-step code review and explanations, you will be ready to test any challenge web developers might throw your way. This book is intended for anyone who wants to create a test suite that is easy to maintain by expanding your knowledge until you feel truly confident and comfortable with Selenium.
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Using an API as a source of fixture data


Using fixtures for test data is great for environments that are highly accessible. If we need to test something other than the localhost or CI environment, where we cannot easily load fixture data into the database, we will have to use a different approach. The trick is to utilize any and all the resources we can find to make testing possible.

One of these resources is a public-facing web API. If your website has a native cell phone application or uses a lot of AJAX to load content, then our tests can have some data to test. All we have to do is interrogate the API to get an idea of the state of the application.

A common API endpoint for most e-commerce websites is a list of all the available products. This list is used by mobile phones to display what a user can purchase. Our website stores the product catalog at http://api.awful-valentine.com/; if you navigate to this URL in your browser, you will see something like this:

Our API endpoint returns a...

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