Selenium WebDriver Recipes in Java: The problem solving guide to Selenium WebDriver in Java

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1. Introduction
    1.1 Selenium
    1.2 Selenium language bindings
    1.3 Set up Development Environment
    1.4 Cross browser testing
    1.5 JUnit
    1.6 Run recipe scripts
2. Locating web elements
    2.1 Start browser
    2.2 Find element by ID
    2.3 Find element by Name
    2.4 Find element by Link Text
    2.5 Find element by Partial Link Text
    2.6 Find element by XPath
    2.7 Find element by Tag Name
    2.8 Find element by Class
    2.9 Find element by CSS Selector
    2.10 Chain findElement to find child elements
    2.11 Find multiple elements
3. Hyperlink
    3.1 Click a link by text
    3.2 Click a link by ID
    3.3 Click a link by partial text
    3.4 Click a link by XPath
    3.5 Click Nth link with exact same label
    3.6 Click Nth link by CSS Selector
    3.7 Verify a link present or not?
    3.8 Getting link data attributes
    3.9 Test links open a new browser window
4. Button
    4.1 Click a button by label
    4.2 Click a form button by label
    4.3 Submit a form
    4.4 Click a button by ID
    4.5 Click a button by name
    4.6 Click a image button
    4.7 Click a button via JavaScript
    4.8 Assert a button present
    4.9 Assert a button enabled or disabled?
5. TextField and TextArea
    5.1 Enter text into a text field by name
    5.2 Enter text into a text field by ID
    5.3 Enter text into a password field
    5.4 Clear a text field
    5.5 Enter text into a multi-line text area
    5.6 Assert value
    5.7 Focus on a control
    5.8 Set a value to a read-only or disabled text field
    5.9 Set and assert the value of a hidden field
6. Radio button
    6.1 Select a radio button
    6.2 Clear radio option selection
    6.3 Assert a radio option is selected
    6.4 Iterate radio buttons in a radio group
    6.5 Click Nth radio button in a group
    6.6 Click radio button by the following label
    6.7 Customized Radio buttons - iCheck
7. CheckBox
    7.1 Check by name
    7.2 Check by id
    7.3 Uncheck a checkbox
    7.4 Assert a checkbox is checked (or not)
    7.5 Customized Checkboxes - iCheck
8. Select List
    8.1 Select an option by text
    8.2 Select an option by value
    8.3 Select an option by iterating all options
    8.4 Select multiple options
    8.5 Clear one selection
    8.6 Clear all selections
    8.7 Assert  label or value  in a select list
    8.8 Assert selected option label
    8.9 Assert the value of a select list
    8.10 Assert multiple selections
9. Navigation and Browser
    9.1 Go to a URL
    9.2 Visit pages within a site
    9.3 Perform actions from right click context menu such as ‘Back’, ‘Forward’ or ‘Refresh’
    9.4 Open browser in certain size
    9.5 Maximize browser window
    9.6 Move browser window
    9.7 Minimize browser window
    9.8 Scroll focus to control
    9.9 Switch between browser windows or tabs
    9.10 Open new and close browser Tabs
    9.11 Remember current web page URL, then come back to it later
10. Assertion
    10.1 Assert page title
    10.2 Assert Page Text
    10.3 Assert Page Source
    10.4 Assert Label Text
    10.5 Assert Span text
    10.6 Assert Div text or HTML
    10.7 Assert Table text
    10.8 Assert text in a table cell
    10.9 Assert text in a table row
    10.10 Assert image present
    10.11 Assert element location and width
    10.12 Assert element CSS style
    10.13 Assert JavaScript errors on a web page
11. Frames
    11.1 Testing Frames
    11.2 Testing iframe
    11.3 Test multiple iframes
12. Testing AJAX
    12.1 Wait within a time frame
    12.2 Explicit Waits until Time out
    12.3 Implicit Waits until Time out
    12.4 Wait AJAX Call to complete using JQuery
13. File Upload and Popup dialogs
    13.1 File upload
    13.2 JavaScript pop ups
    13.3 Timeout on a test
    13.4 Modal style dialogs
    13.5 Popup Handler Approach
    13.6 Handle JavaScript dialog with Popup Handler
    13.7 Basic or Proxy Authentication Dialog
    13.8 Internet Explorer modal dialog
14. Debugging Test Scripts
    14.1 Print text  for debugging
    14.2 Write page source or element HTML into a file
    14.3 Take screenshot
    14.4 Leave browser open after test finishes
    14.5 Debug test execution using Debugger
15. Test Data
    15.1 Get date dynamically
    15.2 Get a random boolean value
    15.3 Generate a number within a range
    15.4 Get a random character
    15.5 Get a random string at fixed length
    15.6 Get a random string in a collection
    15.7 Generate a test file at fixed sizes
    15.8 Retrieve data from Database
16. Browser Profile and Capabilities
    16.1 Get browser type and version
    16.2 Set HTTP Proxy for Browser
    16.3 Verify file download in Chrome
    16.4 Verify file download in Firefox
    16.5 Bypass basic authentication by embedding username and password in URL
    16.6 Bypass basic authentication with Firefox AutoAuth plugin
    16.7 Manage Cookies
    16.8 Headless browser testing with PhantomJS
    16.9 Headless Chrome
    16.10 Test responsive websites
    16.11 Set page load timeout
17. Advanced User Interactions
    17.1 Double click a control
    17.2 Move mouse to a control - Mouse Over
    17.3 Click and hold - select multiple items
    17.4 Context Click - right click a control
    17.5 Drag and drop
    17.6 Drag slider
    17.7 Send key sequences - Select All and Delete
    17.8 Click a specific part of an image
18. HTML 5 and Dynamic Web Sites
    18.1 HTML5 Email type field
    18.2 HTML5 Time Field
    18.3 Invoke ‘onclick’ JavaScript event
    18.4 Invoke JavaScript events such as ‘onchange’
    18.5 Scroll to the bottom of a page
    18.6 Select2 - Single Select
    18.7 Select2 - Multiple Select
    18.8 AngularJS web pages
    18.9 Ember JS web pages
    18.10 “Share Location” with Firefox
    18.11 Faking Geolocation with JavaScript
    18.12 Save a canvas to PNG image
    18.13 Verify dynamic charts
19. WYSIWYG  HTML editors
    19.1 TinyMCE
    19.2 CKEditor
    19.3 SummerNote
    19.4 CodeMirror
20. Leverage  Programming
    20.1 Raise exceptions to fail test
    20.2 Ignorable test statement error
    20.3 Read external file
    20.4 Data-Driven Tests with Excel
    20.5 Data-Driven Tests with CSV
    20.6 Identify element IDs with dynamically generated long prefixes
    20.7 Sending special keys such as Enter to an element or browser
    20.8 Use of Unicode in test scripts
    20.9 Extract a group of dynamic data : verify search results in order
    20.10 Verify uniqueness of a set of data
    20.11 Extract dynamic visible data rows from a results table
    20.12 Extract dynamic text following a pattern using Regex
21. Optimization
    21.1 Assert text in page_source is faster than the text
    21.2 Getting text from more specific element is faster
    21.3 Avoid programming if-else block code if possible
    21.4 Use variable to cache not-changed data
    21.5 Enter large text into a text box
    21.6 Use Environment Variables to change test behaviours dynamically
    21.7 Testing web site in two languages
    21.8 Multi-language testing with lookups
22. Gotchas
    22.1 Test starts browser but no execution with blank screen
    22.2 Failed to assert copied text in browser
    22.3 The same test works for Chrome, but not  IE
    22.4 “unexpected tag name ‘input’”
    22.5 Element is not clickable or not visible
23. Selenium Remote Control Server
    23.1 Selenium Server Installation
    23.2 Execute tests in specified browser on another machine
    23.3 Selenium Grid
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