To get the most out of this book

The following software is required for the book:

• Oracle JDK8
• Maven 3
• IntelliJ IDEA 2018
• JMeter
• Zed Attack Proxy
• Docker
• Mozilla Firefox
• Google Chrome

Generally, the more the browsers you install, the better. You will be able to perform all the exercises in this book if you have at least Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome installed.

The community edition of IntelliJ IDEA is free, but it's certainly worth purchasing a license to get access to the full functionality. You can use the older versions of IntelliJ IDEA or another IDE according to your preference. The code for this book has been written in IntelliJ IDEA 2018.

Download the example code files

You can download the example code files for this book from your account at www.packtpub.com. If you purchased this book elsewhere, you can visit www.packtpub.com/support and register to have the files emailed directly to you.

You can download the code files by following these steps:

1. Log in or register at www.packtpub.com.
2. Select the SUPPORT tab.
3. Click on Code Downloads & Errata.
4. Enter the name of the book in the Search box and follow the onscreen instructions.

Once the file is downloaded, please make sure that you unzip or extract the folder using the latest version of:

• WinRAR/7-Zip for Windows
• Zipeg/iZip/UnRarX for Mac
• 7-Zip/PeaZip for Linux

The code bundle for the book is also hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Selenium-WebDriver-3.0-Second-Edition. In case there's an update to the code, it will be updated on the existing GitHub repository.

We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "groupId should be a domain that you own/control and is entered in reverse."

A block of code is set as follows:

public class BasicTest {

    private ExpectedCondition<Boolean> pageTitleStartsWith(final
    String searchString) {
        return driver -> driver.getTitle().toLowerCase().
        startsWith(searchString.toLowerCase());
    }

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

mvn clean verify -Dwebdriver.gecko.driver=<PATH_TO_GECKODRIVER_BINARY>

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Click on the Projects button on the top left."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.