Selenium WebDriver Recipes in Python

Preface

1. Who should read this book
2. How to read this book
3. Recipe test scripts
4. Send me feedback

1.Introduction

1. 1.1Selenium language bindings
2. 1.2Install Selenium Python
3. 1.3Cross browser testing
4. 1.4unittest - Python Unit Testing Framework
5. 1.5Run recipe scripts

2.Locating web elements

1. 2.1Start browser
2. 2.2Find element by ID
3. 2.3Find element by Name
4. 2.4Find element by Link Text
5. 2.5Find element by Partial Link Text
6. 2.6Find element by XPath
7. 2.7Find element by Tag Name
8. 2.8Find element by Class Name
9. 2.9Find element by CSS Selector
10. 2.10Chain find_element to find child elements
11. 2.11Find multiple elements

3.Hyperlink

1. 3.1Start browser
2. 3.2Click a link by text
3. 3.3Click a link by ID
4. 3.4Click a link by partial text
5. 3.5Click a link by XPath
6. 3.6Click Nth link with exact same label
7. 3.7Click Nth link by CSS
8. 3.8Verify a link present or not?
9. 3.9Getting link data attributes
10. 3.10Test links open a new browser window

4.Button

1. 4.1Click a button by text
2. 4.2Click a form button by text
3. 4.3Submit a form
4. 4.4Click a button by ID
5. 4.5Click a button by name
6. 4.6Click a image button
7. 4.7Click a button via JavaScript
8. 4.8Assert a button present
9. 4.9Assert a button enabled or disabled?

5.TextField and TextArea

1. 5.1Enter text into a text field by name
2. 5.2Enter text into a text field by ID
3. 5.3Enter text into a password field
4. 5.4Clear a text field
5. 5.5Enter text into a multi-line text area
6. 5.6Assert value
7. 5.7Focus on a control
8. 5.8Set a value to a read-only or disabled text field
9. 5.9Set and assert the value of a hidden field

6.Radio button

1. 6.1Select a radio button
2. 6.2Clear radio option selection
3. 6.3Assert a radio option is selected
4. 6.4Iterate radio buttons in a radio group
5. 6.5Click Nth radio button in a group
6. 6.6Click radio button by the following label
7. 6.7Customized Radio buttons - iCheck

7.CheckBox

1. 7.1Select by name
2. 7.2Uncheck a checkbox
3. 7.3Assert a checkbox is checked (or not)
4. 7.4Customized Checkboxes - iCheck

8.Select List

1. 8.1Select an option by text
2. 8.2Select an option by value
3. 8.3Select an option by index
4. 8.4Select an option by iterating all options
5. 8.5Select multiple options
6. 8.6Clear one selection
7. 8.7Clear all selections
8. 8.8Assert label or value in a select list
9. 8.9Assert selected option label
10. 8.10Assert the value of a select list
11. 8.11Assert multiple selections

9.Navigation and Browser

1. 9.1Go to a URL
2. 9.2Visit pages within a site
3. 9.3Perform actions from right mouse click context menu such as ‘Back’, ‘Forward’ or ‘Refresh’
4. 9.4Open browser in certain size
5. 9.5Maximize browser window
6. 9.6Move browser window
7. 9.7Minimize browser window
8. 9.8Scroll focus to control
9. 9.9Switch between browser windows or tabs
10. 9.10Open new and close browser Tabs
11. 9.11Remember current web page URL, then come back to it later

10.Assertion

1. 10.1Assert page title
2. 10.2Assert Page Text
3. 10.3Assert Page Source
4. 10.4Assert Label Text
5. 10.5Assert Span text
6. 10.6Assert Div text or HTML
7. 10.7Assert Table text
8. 10.8Assert text in a table cell
9. 10.9Assert text in a table row
10. 10.10Assert image present
11. 10.11Assert element location and width
12. 10.12Assert element CSS style
13. 10.13Assert JavaScript errors on a web page

11.Frames

1. 11.1Testing Frames
2. 11.2Testing IFrame
3. 11.3Test multiple iframes

12.Testing AJAX

1. 12.1Wait within a time frame
2. 12.2Explicit Waits until Time out
3. 12.3Implicit Waits until Time out
4. 12.4Create your own polling check function
5. 12.5Wait AJAX Call to complete using JQuery

13.File Upload and Popup dialogs

1. 13.1File upload
2. 13.2JavaScript pop ups
3. 13.3Modal style dialogs
4. 13.4Bypass basic authentication by embedding username and password in URL
5. 13.5Internet Explorer modal dialog
6. 13.6Popup Handler Approach
7. 13.7Handle JavaScript dialog with Popup Handler
8. 13.8Basic or Proxy Authentication Dialog

14.Debugging Test Scripts

1. 14.1Print text for debugging
2. 14.2Write page source or element HTML into a file
3. 14.3Take screenshot
4. 14.4Leave browser open after test finishes
5. 14.5Debug test execution using Debugger
6. 14.6Attach test executions to an existing browser

15.Test Data

1. 15.1Get date dynamically
2. 15.2Get a random boolean value
3. 15.3Generate a number within a range
4. 15.4Get a random character
5. 15.5Get a random string at fixed length
6. 15.6Get a random string in a collection
7. 15.7Generate random person names, emails, addresses with Faker
8. 15.8Generate a test file at fixed sizes
9. 15.9Retrieve data from Database

16.Browser Profile and Capabilities

1. 16.1Get browser type and version
2. 16.2Set HTTP Proxy for Browser
3. 16.3Verify file download in Chrome
4. 16.4Test downloading PDF in Firefox
5. 16.5Bypass basic authentication with Firefox AutoAuth plugin
6. 16.6Manage Cookies
7. 16.7Headless browser testing with PhantomJS
8. 16.8Headless Chrome
9. 16.9Headless Firefox
10. 16.10Test responsive websites
11. 16.11Set page load timeout
12. 16.12Device emulation on Chrome

17.Advanced User Interactions

1. 17.1Double click a control
2. 17.2Move mouse to a control - Mouse Over
3. 17.3Click and hold - select multiple items
4. 17.4Context Click - right click a control
5. 17.5Drag and drop
6. 17.6Drag slider
7. 17.7Send key sequences - Select All and Delete
8. 17.8Click a specific part of an image

18.HTML 5 and Dynamic Web Sites

1. 18.1HTML5 Email type field
2. 18.2HTML5 Time Field
3. 18.3Invoke ‘onclick’ JavaScript event
4. 18.4Invoke JavaScript events such as ‘onchange’
5. 18.5Scroll to the bottom of a page
6. 18.6Select2 - Single Select
7. 18.7Select2 - Multiple Select
8. 18.8AngularJS web pages
9. 18.9Ember JS web pages
10. 18.10“Share Location” with Firefox
11. 18.11Faking Geolocation with JavaScript
12. 18.12Save a canvas to PNG image
13. 18.13Verify dynamic charts

19.WYSIWYG HTML editors

1. 19.1TinyMCE
2. 19.2CKEditor
3. 19.3SummerNote
4. 19.4CodeMirror

20.Leverage Programming

1. 20.1Raise exceptions to fail test
2. 20.2Ignorable test statement error
3. 20.3Read external file
4. 20.4Data-Driven Tests with Excel
5. 20.5Data-Driven Tests with CSV
6. 20.6Identify element IDs with dynamically generated long prefixes
7. 20.7Sending special keys such as Enter to an element or browser
8. 20.8Use of unicode in test scripts
9. 20.9Extract a group of dynamic data : verify search results in order
10. 20.10Verify uniqueness of a set of data
11. 20.11Extract dynamic visible data rows from a results table
12. 20.12Extract dynamic text following a pattern using Regex
13. 20.13Quick extract pattern text in comments with Regex

21.Optimization

1. 21.1Assert page_source is faster than page text
2. 21.2Getting text from specific element is faster
3. 21.3Avoid programming if-else block if possible
4. 21.4Use variable to cache not-changed data
5. 21.5Enter large text into a text box
6. 21.6Use Environment Variables to change test behaviours dynamically
7. 21.7Test web site in two languages
8. 21.8Multi-language testing with lookups

22.Gotchas

1. 22.1Test starts browser but no execution with blank screen
2. Be aware of browser and driver changes
3. 22.2Failed to assert copied text in browser
4. 22.3The same test works for Chrome, but not IE
5. 22.4“unexpected tag name ‘input’”
6. 22.5Element is not clickable or not visible

23.Material Design Web App

1. 23.1Select List (dropdown)
2. 23.2Checkbox
3. 23.3Drag range (noUiSlider)
4. 23.4Verify Toast message
5. 23.5Modal

24.Selenium Remote Control Server

1. 24.1Selenium Server Installation
2. 24.2Execute tests in specified browser on another machine
3. 24.3Selenium Grid

Appendix - Continuous Testing

1. Verify server machine can run Selenium Python
2. Install BuildWise Server
3. Create Build Project in BuildWise
4. Trigger test execution manually
5. Feedback while test execution in progress
6. Build finished
7. Notification
8. Review

Afterword

Resources

1. Books
2. Web Sites
3. Blog
4. Tools