Selenium WebDriver Recipes in Ruby

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: Java, C#, JavaScript, Python and Ruby
2. 1.2Cross-browser testing
3. 1.3RSpec
4. 1.4Run recipe scripts

2.Locating web elements

1. 2.1Start browser
2. 2.2Inspect Web Element in Browser
3. 2.3Find element by ID
4. 2.4Find element by Name
5. 2.5Find element by Link Text
6. 2.6Find element by Partial Link Text
7. 2.7Find element by XPath
8. 2.8Find element by Tag Name
9. 2.9Find element by Class
10. 2.10Find element by CSS Selector
11. 2.11Find element by Relative locators
12. 2.12Chain find_element to find child elements
13. 2.13Find multiple elements
14. 2.14Locate a Web Element that disappears after Inspect

3.Hyperlink

1. 3.1Click a link by text
2. 3.2Click a link by ID
3. 3.3Click a link by partial text
4. 3.4Click a link by XPath
5. 3.5Click Nth link with exact same label
6. 3.6Verify a link is present or not?
7. 3.7Getting link data attributes
8. 3.8Test 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 an 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. 8.4Send keys to the select element
5. 8.5Select an option by iterating all options
6. 8.6Select multiple options
7. 8.7Clear one selection
8. 8.8Clear all selections
9. 8.9Assert a label or value in a select list
10. 8.10Assert selected option label
11. 8.11Assert the value of a select list
12. 8.12Assert 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 a certain size
5. 9.5Maximize browser window
6. 9.6Move browser window
7. 9.7Minimize browser window
8. 9.8Scroll focus to control vis JS
9. 9.9Scroll with Scroll Wheel Actions
10. 9.10Switch between browser windows or tabs
11. 9.11New Browser Window or Tab
12. 9.12Open new and close browser Tabs using JavaScript
13. 9.13Remember 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 JS errors on a web page

11.Frames

1. 11.1Testing Frames
2. 11.2Find a frame with find_element
3. 11.3Testing IFrame
4. 11.4Test 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. 13.5Timeout on an operation
6. 13.6Internet Explorer modal dialog

14.Debugging Test Scripts

1. 14.1Print text for debugging
2. 14.2Write text to IDE output
3. 14.3Write page source or element HTML into a file
4. 14.4Take screenshots
5. 14.5Save the screenshot of a specific web element
6. 14.6Using IRB
7. 14.7Leave browser open after test finishes
8. 14.8Pause/Stop test execution at a certain step
9. 14.9Run selected test steps against current 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 a 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. 16.4Load Chrome extensions
5. 16.5Test downloading PDF in Firefox
6. 16.6Bypass basic authentication with Firefox AutoAuth plugin
7. 16.7Manage Cookies
8. 16.8Headless Chrome
9. 16.9Headless Firefox
10. 16.10Test responsive websites
11. 16.11Device emulation on Chrome
12. 16.12Set page load timeout
13. 16.13Testing slow pages that exceed default 60-second timeout

17.Advanced User Interactions

1. 17.1Double click a control
2. 17.2Move the 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
9. 17.9Mouse move to coordinates
10. 17.10Shadow DOM

18.HTML 5 and JavaScript

1. 18.1HTML5 Email type field
2. 18.2HTML5 Time Field
3. 18.3HTML5 Range Element
4. 18.4Invoke ‘onclick’ JavaScript event
5. 18.5Invoke JavaScript events such as ‘onchange’
6. 18.6Scroll to the bottom of a page
7. 18.7Select2 - Single Select
8. 18.8Select2 - Multiple Select
9. 18.9AngularJS web pages
10. 18.10Ember JS web pages
11. 18.11“Share Location” with Firefox
12. 18.12Faking Geolocation with JavaScript
13. 18.13Save a canvas to PNG image
14. 18.14Verify dynamic charts
15. 18.15TinyMCE
16. 18.16CKEditor
17. 18.17SummerNote
18. 18.18CodeMirror

19.Leverage Programming

1. 19.1Raise exceptions to fail a test
2. 19.2Ignorable test statement error
3. 19.3Read external file
4. 19.4Data-Driven Tests with Excel
5. 19.5Data-Driven Tests with CSV
6. 19.6Identify element IDs with dynamically generated long prefixes
7. 19.7Sending special keys to an element or browser
8. 19.8Use of Unicode in test scripts
9. 19.9Extract a group of dynamic data : verify search results in order
10. 19.10Verify the uniqueness of a set of data
11. 19.11Extract dynamic visible data rows from a table
12. 19.12Extract dynamic text following a pattern using Regex
13. 19.13Quick extract pattern text in comments with Regex

20.Optimization

1. 20.1Assert text in page_source is faster than the text
2. 20.2Getting the text from a more specific element is faster
3. 20.3Avoid programming if-else block code if possible
4. 20.4Use variable to cache not-changed data
5. 20.5Enter large text into a text box
6. 20.6Use Environment Variables to change test behaviors dynamically
7. 20.7Test website in two languages
8. 20.8Multi-language testing with lookups

21.Gotchas

1. 21.1Test starts browser but no execution with a blank screen
2. Be aware of browser and driver changes
3. 21.2Failed to assert copied text in the browser
4. 21.3The same test works for Chrome, but not IE
5. 21.4“unexpected tag name ‘input’”
6. 21.5Element is not clickable or not visible
7. 21.6Lack of knowledge of the programming language

22.Extend Selenium

1. 22.1Watir
2. 22.2RWebSpec
3. 22.3Capybara

23.Selenium with Cucumber

1. 23.1How Selenium-WebDriver is integrated with Cucumber?
2. 23.2Execute Cucumber tests
3. 23.3Cucumber or RSpec?

24.Material Design Web App

1. 24.1Select List (dropdown)
2. 24.2Checkbox
3. 24.3Drag range (noUiSlider)
4. 24.4Verify Toast message
5. 24.5Modal

25.Selenium Grid

1. 25.1Selenium Server Standalone
2. 25.2Execute tests on a remote machine
3. 25.3Set up Selenium Grid
4. 25.4Using Selenium Grid to run tests
5. 25.5Issues with Selenium Grid

26.Selenium 4

1. 26.1New Browser Window or Tab
2. 26.2Basic Authentication via register
3. 26.3Print to PDF
4. 26.4Save element screenshot
5. 26.5Relative Locators
6. 26.6Scroll Wheel Actions

27.Selenium DevTools

1. 27.1General
2. 27.2Event
3. 27.3Network
4. 27.4Emulate
5. 27.5Page

28.Quiz

1. 28.1Answers

Afterword

Resources

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