Selenium Essential Training

Course details

Take your Selenium framework skills to the next level. In this course, Meaghan Lewis takes you past the basics covered in Learning Selenium, on to intermediate and advanced options. First, Meaghan reviews the fundamentals and shows you how to get the most out of WebDriver. Next, she takes you into the mechanics of advanced locators and interacting with components. Then she shares how to overcome common synchronization issues. She wraps up by covering workflows and integrations.

Learning objectives
Using browser drivers and WebDriver
Inspecting elements
Executing JavaScript commands
Selecting a locator
Combining multiple CSS attributes
Using common components
Implicit and explicit waits
Automating workflows
Testing behaviors
Using page objects
Connecting to GitHub
Running on the grid
Using cloud-based testing tools

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Get set up

1. Review Fundamentals

03 - The Selenium project
04 - Using WebDriver
05 - Browser drivers
06 - WebDriver tips and tricks
07 - Inspecting Elements

2. Succeeding with WebDriver

08 - Look at the test application
09 - Keyboard and mouse input
10 - Using autocomplete
11 - Scroll to element
12 - Switch to active window
13 - Switch to alert
14 - Executing JavaScript commands
15 - Drag and drop

3. Using Advanced Locators

16 - Determine which locator to use
17 - Combine multiple CSS attributes
18 - Text matching
19 - Using wildcards

4. Interacting with Components

20 - Common components
21 - Radio buttons and checkboxes
22 - Date pickers
23 - Dropdown menus
24 - File upload

5. Synchronization Issues

25 - Why synchronization is an issue
26 - Implicit waits
27 - Explicit waits

6. Putting It All Together

28 - Automate a workflow using WebDriver
29 - Confirm the behavior of the test
30 - Clean up the test
31 - Use page objects

7. Project Integration

32 - Connect to GitHub
33 - Setup CI
34 - Run in CI (continuous integration) servers
35 - Use cloud-based testing tools

Conclusion

36 - Next steps