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About the Book
What you will gain from this book will relieve the stress of manual testing. The book covers the fundamentals of automating UI testing for web applications. The aim is not to throw a bible on testing theories, but to provide practical examples on writing automated test scripts using popular open source tools, such as Selenium-Webdriver and Rspec.
Paid and 'Record and Playback' tools are a no-no in this book, giving you more exposure to writing your own test scripts and execute them through IDEs or command prompts - whichever you prefer.
Book Coverage:
Chapter 1: Shows you how to write your first test script.
Chapter 2: Provides examples on locating page elements using various approach.
Chapter 3: Demonstrates code structuring using the Rspec framework and the concept of page objects.
Chapter 4: Demonstrates how the test script can be shortened using the technique Refactoring.
Chapter 5: Demonstrates how command lines can be used to execute test script.
Chapter 6: Covers the concept of 'Rake' to perform builds
Chapter 7: Goes through setting up Git for version control.
Chapter 8: Covers the concept of Continuous Integration and setting up Jenkins to perform a build.
Chapter 9: Explains cross browser testing and demonstrates how to switch different browser types.
About the Author