Test Automation using Selenium WebDriver with Java: Step by Step Guide 1st Edition

I already had significant experience with QTP/UFT and bought this to get me started with Selenium. The book is great in explaining what and why you are doing the setups and how to start with the Selenium IDE and then the more advanced approach by just doing the Java code using Selenium's WebDriver. Good screenshots and good walk throughs in installing and using the various tools and plug-ins.Within just a short time I've become very comfortable with Selenium, how it generally works and the overall approach.Great product.

This is a good introductory book for Selenium WebDriver, and much better than some of the other books I scanned through. The code examples work as advertised, although the author doesn't implement Implicit Waits & Explicit Waits (things to deal with delays in web page elements) correctly. "Mastering Selenium WebDriver" by Mark Collin has a whole chapter devoted to why the wait approach used by "Test Automation using Selenium WebDriver" is wrong. I'd also be remiss if I didn't comment on the author's naming conventions for variables which uses some variant of Hungarian notation which isn't necessary for the Java programming language and modern IDEs. Likewise, some readers will complain about the presence of an "introduction to Java" chapter, but I'm not one of those readers since I understand who the book is aimed at.Navneesh Garg thoughtfully maintains a simple, working website that readers can use as they write Selenium WebDriver tests. The book is aimed at beginners and provides practical step-by-step instructions for configuring and working with a Java Eclipse/Ant build based environment leveraging JUnit or TestNG unit tests. Later chapters describe the rationale behind Continuous Integration testing and some of the pitfalls encountered which is also helpful for beginners. Experienced readers may roll their eyes at this kind of content, but you'd be surprised how many agencies will submit contract workers with Java & javascript experience, but little to no experience with the build chain used by their clients. The clients have little interest in documenting these steps for contingent staff and it wastes productive time for both the client and the agency temp.Experienced users can skip the sections they're not interested in and get straight to coding Selenium WebDriver tests. The book does a good job introducing the material, and by the time you've finished, you'll have a solid introduction to Selenium WebDriver if you work through the examples and resolve any problems you encounter. As a follow-up, I'd suggest reading "Mastering Selenium Web Driver" by Marc Collin and keeping a Selenium cookbook (short coding recipes) around as a reference guide. The important lesson to learn with the cookbook approach is try to things within the Selenium APIs first before you drop into the Selenium Javascript Executor or a third-party framework like Auto-It to accomplish a task.

The book was very useful to start Selenium and very focus to Java as a Developing language for test scripts.Overall, the book fulfilled my expectations in all regards. Excellent job and truly recommend the text book.

Throughout the book, it uses examples from a custom build webpage WHICH NO LONGER ONLINE. So basically you cannot followup with this book unless they fix the website they are using here. This would be a good book if the website is online. After going through the description once they start giving you real example using this website you cannot do anything here, you are completely stuck. I WOULD SUGGEST EVERYBODY NOT TO BUY THIS BOOK. check this website [...], if this website works then you can buy this book, this will definitely help you. Currently I am in a search to buy a different book just because of this website is down.

I highly recommend this book. It is definitely far not perfect but since all the other textbooks on this topic are much worse, this book is worth buying.

Pros: Excellent step by step summary of how to use Selenium to test a Web-based UI.Informative and not condescending in tone. Well illustrated.Cons: Too many simple grammatical and spelling errors.Also missing some important GOTCHAS that I resolved using Google.* 5.5-Eclipse: Add _JAVA_OPTS: XMx=250M* 5.5-Eclipse: Modify eclipse.ini file. Update it for JVM location and arguments.* 9-WebDriver: Had to add Thread.sleep(3000); to the Java code to recognize the Submit() button on Page 1 of the test website.In all, it cost me 3 days elapsed researching and resolving these issues. I checked the Book Reviews before purchase and found out this edition resolved many other bugs. It seems that there may still be room for improvement here.Conclusion: Excellent book for those who want to learn Selenium. Beware that there may be issues that the Reader may have to resolved with Google searches and trial and error.Besides, that's not too much different than what happens in the Software Testing profession itself.

This book doesn't specify it's intended mainly for Windows platforms-I'm using OS X and having trouble using Eclipse to point to JRE 8 and installing WinANT (which assumes the user is on a Windows Operating System!)

Good book but it's very much geared to automated testing on the PC/Windows OS and not the MacOSx. I am testing in both OS's, so understanding using WebDriver in both is very important. Also, having a working knowledge of Eclipse and a programming language like Java or C# is very important. You can use PHP or some other third party's software package, but the easiest ones to use (most convenient) are the ones I mentioned above, as well as Python or Perl. Reference seleniumhq.org for documentation and downloads that are very helpful.