Course contents

Introduction to Selenium

• Important preliminary points
• What is Selenium IDE
• The basic features of Selenium
• What kind of things can you do with it?
• Important note: Rules for automation

Installation

• Step 1 – What do I need?
• Step 2 – Downloading Selenium IDE
• Step 3 – Installing Selenium IDE

Getting Started with Selenium IDE -Quick start

• Step 1 – Recording and adding commands in a test
• Step 2 – Saving the recorded test
• Step 3 – Saving the test suite
• Step 4 – Running the recorded test

Controlling Test Flow     

• Synchronizing a test with an implicit wait
• Synchronizing a test with an explicit wait
• Synchronizing a test with custom-expected conditions

Locators

• Locating elements by ID
• Finding IDs of elements with Firebug
• Finding elements by name
• Finding elements by XPath
• Finding an element by the text it contains

Getting Started with Selenium IDE – 1 Step further

• Updating a test to assert items are on the page
• Updating a test to verify items on the page
• Adding Selenium IDE comments
• Storing information from the page in the test
• Storing elements from the page
• Debugging tests
• Creating Test Suites
• Saving tests
• What you cannot record

Overview of Selenium Web Driver   

• Overview of Selenium Web Driver
• Architecture
• Web Driver API
• Selenium server
• How to set up your Java environment
• Exporting a recorded test to Selenium
• Web Driver

Data-driven testing        

• Introduction
• Creating a data-driven test
• Creating a data-driven test
• Reading test data from a CSV / Excel files
• Reading test data from a database

Introducing Page Object          

• Introduction
• What is Page Objects Pattern
• Working with Page Objects
• Using Page Object Pattern to design tests

Web Drivers          

• Firefox Driver
• Chrome Driver
• Internet Explorer Driver

Working with Selenium API    

• Checking Element’s text
• Checking Element’s attribute values
• Working with dropdowns
• Working with checkboxes and radio buttons

Testing on Mobile Devices

• Working with Android
• Installing the Selenium Web Driver Android Server
• Setting up and configuring Appium for Mobile Testing
• Creating a test for Android