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You're reading from Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide End-to-end automation testing for web and mobile browsers with Selenium WebDriver

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788999762

Length 280 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Selenium

Concepts

Application Testing

Authors (3):

Satya Avasarala

Pallavi Sharma

UNMESH GUNDECHA

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing WebDriver and WebElements FREE CHAPTER

2. Different Available WebDrivers

3. Using Java 8 Features with Selenium

4. Exploring the Features of WebDriver

5. Exploring Advanced Interactions of WebDriver

6. Understanding WebDriver Events

7. Exploring RemoteWebDriver

8. Setting up Selenium Grid

9. The PageObject Pattern

10. Mobile Testing on iOS and Android using Appium

11. Data-Driven Testing with TestNG

12. Assessments

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Understanding the node

As our hub is up and running, it's now time to start a node and connect it to the hub. In this example, we will configure a macOS machine that has Chrome installed on it. So, if any test script requests the hub for a macOS platform and Chrome browser, the hub will choose this node. Let's see how we can start the node. The command to start the node and register with the hub is as follows:

java –jar selenium-server-standalone-3.12.0.jar –role node –hub http://192.168.0.101:1111/grid/register

This will start the Selenium server in the node mode and register this node with the already-started hub:

If you go back to the Grid Console on the browser, you will see the following:

The preceding screenshot shows the http://192.168.0.101:16784 node URL, which, in this case, is running on the Mac platform. By default, the number of browsers...

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Authors (3)

Sharma

Tushar Sharma has a master's degree specializing in data science from the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. He works as a data scientist with Intel. In his previous job he used to work as a research engineer for a financial consultancy firm. His work involves handling big data at scale generated by the massive infrastructure at Intel. He engineers and delivers end to end solutions on this data using the latest machine learning tools and frameworks. He is proficient in R, Python, Spark, and mathematical aspects of machine learning among other things. Tushar has a keen interest in everything related to technology. He likes to read a wide array of books ranging from history to philosophy and beyond. He is a running enthusiast and likes to play badminton and tennis.

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UNMESH GUNDECHA

Unmesh Gundecha has over 16 years, experience in Agile software development, test automation, and DevOps methodologies. He is an Agile, open source, and DevOps evangelist with extensive experience in a diverse set of tools and technologies. He has extensive hands-on experience in building sustainable and repeatable test automation solutions for web and mobile platforms, APIs, and CLI apps with continuous integration and delivery pipelines, using best-of-breed open source and commercial tools to do so. He is the author of Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook and Learning Selenium Testing Tools with Python, both by Packt Publishing.

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Avasarala

Satya Avasarala has rich experience in Java development and automation testing. He is an engineer in computer science. He has used WebDriver for many years now and has created several good automation frameworks. He has worked at various large software enterprises such as Oracle Corp, Yahoo! Inc., VMware Inc., and the REA Group. In addition, he is also interested in Service Oriented Architectural design and Business Intelligence. He is an Oracle-certified Service Oriented Architecture Infrastructure Implementation Expert and a Business Intelligence Foundation Suite Implementation Specialist.

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