While few people deny the benefits of test automation, comprehensive automated testing via UI (browser for web applications) is rarely implemented in software projects. Common reasons for projects' failed attempts on test automation are:

• Difficult to learn - test scripts are complex and testing tools are not easy to use
• Hard to maintain - UI tests are vulnerable to application changes
• Long feedback loop - automated tests take too long to run

To succeed in automated testing via UI, software...

The Watir Recipes book is a quick problem-solving guide to automated testing web applications with Watir or Watir-WebDriver. It contains hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and ready-to-run test scripts you can use in your own projects.

The Selenium Recipes book is a quick problem-solving guide to automated testing web applications with Selenium WebDriver. It contains hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and ready-to-run test scripts you can use in your own projects.

On December 8, 2013, US President Barack Obama "asked every American to give it a shot to learn to code" (watch it here), kicking off the Hour of Code campaign for Computer Science Education Week 2013. "Learning these skills isn't just important for your future, it's important for our country's future," President Obama said. The message is clear: coding (aka. programming) is an important skill for this Information Age, and many will agree. Some might wonder: there are many "how to program" books, why another one? A typical how-to-program book will go through the programming concepts, syntax...

A quick problem-solving guide to automated testing web applications with Selenium WebDriver in Java. It contains hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and ready-to-run Selenium test scripts that you can use in your own projects.

Solve your Selenium WebDriver problems with this quick guide to automated testing of web applications with Selenium WebDriver in C#. Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#, Second Edition contains hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and ready-to-run Selenium test scripts that you can use in your own projects.

You'll learn:

• How to locate web elements and test functions for hyperlinks, buttons, TextFields and TextAreas, radio buttons, CheckBoxes, and more
• How to use Selenium WebDriver for select lists, navigation, assertions,...

API popularity skyrocketed with the rise in smartphone use, and many new software developed for web and mobile platforms provide APIs. Microservices architecture that develops a single application as a suite of small services exposed as HTTP resource API, is becoming a hot topic. Now more than ever, software projects demand efficient API testing. API Testing Recipes in Ruby will show you solutions for efficient API testing, including: generating flexible request data, e.g. SOAP message, CSV/Excel invoking various APIs, e.g. SOAP, REST parse returned response, e.g. XML, JSON fully automating...