Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition

I don't fault the author for lapses in what may be a non-native language.But I surely fault Packt Publishing for selling books in an English-speaking market without respecting customers enough to properly proofread and copy edit their offerings.The technical information here is sound but I found myself re-reading and fine-parsing far more than I'd like - to the point where I began to doubt the author's expertise - justified or not.If I have a criticism of the content it's there's too much time spent on recording tests with Selenium IDE. No one doing serious web-based automation these days is doing record and playback, and they're not strictly testing GUI controls. They're coding from scratch in either Java or C# against APIs and injecting JavaScript and/or JSON/XML. The sooner you get comfortable writing directly to the Web Driver, the sooner you'll be productive.I'd like to recommend this book but the best I can do is 'conditionally'. There are just too many better-written sources of similar information out there.

I went from a 4 star to 3 as I proceeded through this book.There are just so many little errors and issues.I really wish they had edited the book with a 'clean' system.I spend a lot of time (which might be good) trying to figure out whatthe heck the Author is doing.This book appears not to be up to date any longer.They have links in Ch 6 that are no longer valid as an example.Although the Author clearly cares about the material and the Reader, there are things missing andIntelliJ knowledge (or Eclipse) is a prerequisite.I'm using IntelliJ and needed to get another book to come up to speed on that.In one example of missing info from book, Selenium not longer plays well with Firefox so you need to use:System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Marionette\\geckodriver.exe");Another is when the Author explains findElementsByID, there are necessary imports that are not included in the book.import java.util.List;import org.junit.Assert;In the span of one short year, the book is outdated. *Sigh* I remember the good old days of using Intel's 486 chip when a pin output was all you needed to...Uh oh hi...back again.HOWEVER, you can learn a great deal IF you are patient and diligent and want to trouble shoot.But for me, I need to come up to speed quickly and this ain't cutting it.

The book is full of less relevant information, such as Java basics, Selenium RC explanations and so on. However, the most important knowledge, which I was looking for when I purchased this book - how to build the Selenium Automation framework from scratch - was not explained in detail, this section was only briefly shown in chapter 7 on literally less than 20 pages ( out of 291 pages of the book).So overall I was dissapointed from this book, although I did learn a few new things from it.

Clearly written with good examples. Was able to get going quickly.

Just got it in and am reading it

I have been working as an Automation architect in testing industry for a while now and still I feel, I am benefit largely by having an through understanding of most of the programming concepts while reading this book including the methodologies suitable for current market. I have started to apply the concepts detailed in the book to my current project which is proving to be a fantastic basis for a highly maintainable and well-structured framework.Also what I see in this book is that every topic is elaborately explained, even the beginner can easily grasp the required concepts and implement the framework at the project level.I would really Thank Raghavendra Prasad MG for such an detail study on selenium.

Raghavendra prasad has done excellent research and published the book that's perfect reading for a person who likes to explore, learn and expertise in selenium Web Driver. It's very detail in nature and things that have been covered in depth with examples and is explanatory in nature. Especially the advanced topics covered in chapter 11,12 and 13 provide an in depth knowledge for existing users of selenium.Thanks RP for your work and like to see more from you in near future...

I just started my career in automation team and selenium was a complete rocket science for me. The book authored by Raghavendra Prasad MG has been a great guide to me the whole time. Things are explained from scratch and any person who knows or understands English can learn selenium if he/she practices what's given in the book. Of-course, the person reading the book must have that interest or the need to learn selenium. To finalize, this is an extremely well written book with screenshots at every stage explaining how to go about with things. The book is a very good deal for the price it is being sold at, because what one can make after learning selenium is no-where close to the cost at what the book is sold.

Ich habe gleich zwei Bücher gekauft für die Automatiserung mit dem Selenium Framework.Dieses Buch bietet einen guten Leitfaden.Im Vergleich zu dem anderen Buch welches ich mir auch über Amazon erworben habe, ist dieses Buch besser in der Praxis einsetzbar. Ich habe dieses Buch als Grundlage für das Selbstudium gekauft und bin recht zufrieden damit.

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