• A WebBrowser is a front-end to a website http server
• A WebDriver is a front-end to a specific WebBrowser that controls interaction with a website
• Selenium-Server is a front-end to a WebDriver that provides API calls to interact the WebDriver over HTTP
  • Theoretically, Selenium Server provides a library of actions/listeners/utils and the WebDriver provides the custom browser implementation
  • Selenium Server does nothing without a WebDriver
• Language bindings provide a language-specific API and interface to Selenium Server API
  • The language bindings expose/translate API calls to Selenium Server
  • Available Selenium Server functions are dependent on the Language Binding
  • Language bindings can differ in their class hierarchies, API structure, and available functions.
• SeleniumCore = Webdriver: chromedriver.exe, iedriver.exe, geckodriver.exe
• SeleniumServer = selenium-se

Simple seed script for creating a menu system on linux( from stackoverflow )

#!/bin/bash
# Menu Runner

PS3='Please enter choice: '
opts=("ls" "pwd" "opt3" "Quit")
select opt in "${opts[@]}"
do
    case $opt in
        "ls")
            echo "u chose ls"
            ;;
        "pwd")
            echo "u chose pwd"
            ;;
        "opt3")
            echo "u typed '$REPLY' which calls '$opt'"
            ;;
        "Quit")
            break
            ;;
            *) echo "invalid option $REPLY";;
    esac
done

Still troubleshooting chromium under linux.

These are only notes

Java implementation

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050914001045
• https://ac.els-cdn.com/S1877050914001045/1-s2.0-S1877050914001045-main.pdf?_tid=a84352f1-815a-486e-b110-974016ac588b&acdnat=1546490940_2a23e5afff645eb289e6c90afa98290f

• https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/entarch/shrivastava-automated-frameworks-1692936.html

Broad Types of Automation Framework

Automation frameworks can be classified according to four broad types, each of which has unique advantages and disadvantages, as shown in Table 1. The choice of a particular type depends upon a wide range of external factors.

• https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/test-automation-frameworks-selenium-tutorial-20/

Though the above pictorial representation of a framework is self-explanatory we would still highlight a few points.

• https://techbeacon.com/6-best-practices-integration-testing-ci-environment
• Develop Integration Tests First as they are better suited to catch problems INTRODUCED
• Then Unit tests as they are better suited to verify a system INITIALLY, then FIND the source of NEW problems

• Integration first, until the fail
• Then run Unit Tests to ID source
• When Unit Tests pass again
• Run Integration Tests
• Bounce between the two until both are passing

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