Automating Web Testing with Selenium and Python [Video]

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Automating Web Testing with Selenium and Python [Video]

Marko Stanojlovic

Thursday, December 27, 2018

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Developing reliable and accurate web testing automation with Selenium WebDriver and Python

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Video Details

ISBN 13 9781789614473

Course Length 3 hours 47 minutes

Setting Up Your Environment

The Course Overview

Selenium as a Testing Tool

Web Page Structure, DOM, and Finding Elements

Setting Up a Python 3 Test Environment and Visual Studio Code IDE

Installing ChromeDriver and Creating and Running Selenium Tests

Troubleshooting a Failed Test and Examining Results

Caching DOM Elements

Selecting Locators in the DOM

Handcrafting CSS and XPath Locators

Automating Buttons, Checkboxes, and Input Text Areas

Automating Drop-Down Menus and Lists

Automating Radio Buttons and Radio Groups

Automating Tables

Assertions

Implicit and Explicit Wait

Automating Browser Related Actions

Executing JavaScript Code

Capturing Screenshots

Browser Window and Navigation

Handling Cookies

WebDriver Events

Implementing the Page Object Model Design Pattern

POM Design Pattern

Test Example Without Using POM

Modeling a Web Page Testing with POM

Refactoring Test Code to Use POM

Other Design Patterns and Principles

Implementing SOLID Principles

KISS, DRY, YAGNI, and Other Principles

Working with Generic Software Design Patterns

Execution Scaling

Working with the Python unittest Module

Making Test Runs in Parallel

Selenium Grid

Setting Up a Selenium Grid with Docker Containers

Cross-Browser Testing

Configuring WebDriver for Headless Browsers

Running Tests in All Browsers

Managing the Test Results

Creating a Test Report

Creating a Test Suite

Suite Preparation

Submitting the Form Test Cases

Data Scraping Example

Putting It All Together

Video Description

Selenium WebDriver is one of the most sought-after skills on this planet, and you can learn it today. One of the worst drags in the application development process is the testing phase. And the pressure to launch an application as early as possible may force you to cut corners in the time-consuming manual testing phase, resulting in half-baked products and end-users impeded by many glitches.

If you're drowning in a never-ending collection of regression test cases and need to automate them, you're in the right place. This course will make your life as a developer easier and using Selenium will change the mundane way in which you run the exact same tests day in and day out.

Test automation with Selenium and Python, or developing scripts for running automated test commands against a range of browsers, will be more cost-effective, accurate, and faster than manual testing. The lack of manual intervention will diminish the possibility of errors and you will be able to find bugs at an early stage, making the process more reliable. By automating your web testing, you will be able to run tests on multiple devices simultaneously, which is impossible with manual testing.

By the end of this course, you will be well on the way to becoming a test automation specialist. Automating your testing with Python and Selenium will offer a highly efficient way to generate test scripts, validate their functionality, and reuse such scripts in an automated framework.

All the code and supporting files for this course are available on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/-Automating-Web-Testing-with-Selenium-and-Python

Style and Approach

This comprehensive course is packed with step-by-step instructions, examples, and points to remember. You will create a Selenium WebDriver framework from scratch by using the Page Object Model design pattern and taking advantage of Python unittest and reap the benefits that Selenium has to offer in automating the tedious web testing phase.

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What You Will Learn

Create a Selenium WebDriver framework from scratch by using the unittest and PyTest frameworks
Make unit and functional tests of web applications more efficient and reliable
Automate various UI elements such as buttons, links, radio buttons, checkbox and tables
Create robust tests with Selenium WebDriver and run tests on a Selenium Grid with Docker containers
Implement the POM (Page Object Model) design pattern and model a web page with it
Work with the SOLID, KISS, DRY, YAGNI design patterns to enhance the functionality of your code from beginner to professional
Scale your tests and make them run in parallel by using different methods like Selenium Grid or Python multiprocessing module
Configure Selenium WebDriver for Chrome, Firefox, and PhantomJS and run and manage tests in all browsers and headless
Develop a test suite of an example web application in a stable, reliable, and efficient manner

Authors

Marko Stanojlovic

Marko Stanojlovic has been working in the IT industry since 2010. After finishing his Master's degree in IT and Telecommunications, he acquired expertise in various fields such as high-end hardware, system maintenance, and support and developed complex solutions in the area of UNIX and Storage. He has a passion for automation, open-source projects, and sharing. He gained experience with community-based QA projects where he has made active contributions, using automation with Python and Selenium on a daily basis.

Setting Up Your Environment

The Course Overview

Selenium as a Testing Tool

Web Page Structure, DOM, and Finding Elements

Setting Up a Python 3 Test Environment and Visual Studio Code IDE

Installing ChromeDriver and Creating and Running Selenium Tests

Troubleshooting a Failed Test and Examining Results

Caching DOM Elements

Selecting Locators in the DOM

Handcrafting CSS and XPath Locators

Automating Buttons, Checkboxes, and Input Text Areas

Automating Drop-Down Menus and Lists