Python Testing with Selenium: Learn to Implement Different Testing Techniques Using the Selenium WebDriver

✍ Scribed by Sujay Raghavendra

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 184
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Implement different testing techniques using Selenium WebDriver with the Python programming language. This quick reference provides simple functional test cases with a syntax-based approach for Selenium WebDriver.

You’ll begin by reviewing the basics of Selenium WebDriver and its architectural design history and then move on to the configuration and installation of Selenium library for different web browsers, including the basic commands needed to start test scripts in various browsers. You’ll review action commands of keyboard and mouse for testing user interactions in a web page and see how hyperlinks are tested.

The book also examines various web elements using eight different locators provided by Selenium to help you choose the one best suited to your needs. All Python scripts are ready to test real examples, all of which are explained thoroughly with problem statements. You’ll use different Python design patterns to automate test scripts that can be incorporated with Selenium.

In the end, Python Testing with Selenium will provide you with the expertise to write your own test cases in future.

What You’ll Learn

• Install and configure Selenium WebDriver with Python for different web-browsers
• Review basic commands of Selenium
• Locate web elements
• Work with UI based web elements
• Assert web elements and handle exceptions
• Write test scripts in Page Object Model
• Write test cases with Unittest framework

Who This Book Is For

Python developers/testers who want to test their web applications

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi
Introduction to Selenium (Sujay Raghavendra)....Pages 1-14
Getting Started (Sujay Raghavendra)....Pages 15-26
Mouse and Keyboard Actions (Sujay Raghavendra)....Pages 27-37
Web Elements (Sujay Raghavendra)....Pages 39-68
Navigation (Sujay Raghavendra)....Pages 69-74
Buttons (Sujay Raghavendra)....Pages 75-96
Frames and Textboxes (Sujay Raghavendra)....Pages 97-106
Assertions (Sujay Raghavendra)....Pages 107-116
Exceptions (Sujay Raghavendra)....Pages 117-127
Waits (Sujay Raghavendra)....Pages 129-142
Page Objects (Sujay Raghavendra)....Pages 143-150
Using Test Cases with a Screenshot (Sujay Raghavendra)....Pages 151-163
Back Matter ....Pages 165-170

✦ Subjects

Computer Science; Python; Security; Open Source