README.md

awesome-webdriver-java

A list of some popular frameworks and libraries used in Java WebDriver world.

• Assertions
• Annotations
• BDD
• Caching
• CSV
• Distributed
• Dependency Injection
• Email
• Excel
• Frameworks
• Functional Programming
• HTML
• IoT
• JSON
• Logging
• Property Management
• Rest / SOAP
• Stream Processing
• Synchronization
• Test Data
• Utilities
• Visual Validation

Assertions

• JUnit - A unit testing framework.
• AssertJ - A fluent style assertion library with capability of creating custom assertions.
• TestNG - TestNG is a testing framework inspired from JUnit and NUnit but introducing some new functionalities that make it more powerful and easier to use.
• truth - A Google open source fluent style assertion library.

Annotations

• Lombok - Helps to reduce boilerplate code.

Behaviour Driven Development

• Cucumber
• JBehave

Caching

• Caffiene - An efficient In memory caching framework, very useful to store information when running tests.

CSV

• opencsv - opencsv is an easy-to-use CSV (comma-separated values) parser library for Java
• Apache commons-csv - Commons CSV reads and writes files in variations of the Comma Separated Value (CSV) format.

Distributed Test Execution

• Selenium Grid -Selenium Grid is a part of the Selenium Suite capable of running multiple tests across different browsers, operating systems and machines in parallel.
• SauceLabs - One of the largest continuous testing cloud provider for web and mobile applications.
• TestingBot - Another cloud provider for Selenium Grid.
• CrossBrowserTesting - A cloud testing provider from SmartBear.
• Selenium-Grid-Extras - A selenium grid wrapper from Groupon.

Dependency Injection

• Guice - Guice (pronounced 'juice') is a lightweight dependency injection framework for Java 6 and above, brought to you by Google.
• PicoContainer - Another well known dependency injection framework.

Email

• javax.mail - Standard Java emailing api.

Excel

• Poiji - A tiny library converting excel rows to a list of Java objects based on Apache POI
• Apache Poi - The Java API for Microsoft Documents.
• Fillo - An excel API to query the xls and XLSX files.

Frameworks

• Serenity BDD - A popular WebDriver framework which helps to eliminate lots of boilerplate code.
• Selenide - A fluent style framework with powerful jquery like selectors and with builtin proxy.
• WebDriverExtensions - Built on top of Selenium/WebDriver to make your tests more readable, reusable and maintainable by combining the Page Object Pattern and Bot Pattern.
• Arquillian Graphene - Robust Functional Tests leveraging WebDriver with flavour of neat AJAX-ready API.
• SeleniumQuery - jQuery-like cross-driver interface in Java for Selenium WebDriver

Functional Programming

• Vavr - It aims to reduce the lines of code and increase code quality.

HTML

• jsoup - Open source Java HTML parser, with DOM, CSS, and jquery-like methods for easy data extraction.

IoT

• AWS sdk - To interact with Amazon IoT services.

JSON

• json-simple - A simple Java toolkit for JSON. You can use json-simple to encode or decode JSON text.
• gson - A Google Java serialization/deserialization library to convert Java Objects into JSON and back.
• Jackson - Jackson is a high-performance JSON processor for Java.

Logging Frameworks

• Log4j2 - Apache Log4j 2 is an upgrade to Log4j that provides significant improvements over its predecessor.
• Sl4j - The Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) serves as a simple facade or abstraction for various logging frameworks.

Property Management

• Owner - This library makes life easier when working with property files.

REST / SOAP

• Unirest - A lightweight HTTP library.
• RestAssured - A very popular REST test and validation library.
• SOAP UI - An automated testing tool for REST and SOAP APIs.
• Postman - An API development environment.

Streams

• StreamEx - Enhancing Java 8 Streams.

Synchronization

• Awaitility - Awaitility is a small Java DSL for synchronizing asynchronous operations

Test Data

• JFairy - Java fake data generator
• java-faker - This library is a port of Ruby's faker gem (as well as Perl's Data::Faker library) that generates fake data.
• faker - Another Java port of the Faker ruby gem.

Utilities

• Apache Commons - Lang provides a host of helper utilities for the java.lang API.

Visual Validation

• Ocular -Ocular is a simple utility which helps us to add the visual validation feature into the existing WebDriver test automation frameworks.