Selenium Essential Training: Build Reliable, Scalable Test Automation for Modern Web Apps

Course details

Take your Selenium automation beyond the basics by mastering the precision tools and advanced strategies required for complex, real-world web applications. This course guides you through fine-tuning WebDriver configurations for stable browser sessions while teaching you to navigate intricate UI scenarios—such as handling alerts, switching windows, and interacting with dynamic elements—with ease. Discover essential debugging techniques to resolve synchronization issues and implement containerization strategies to ensure your tests are robust, scalable, and production-ready. Designed for QA engineers, testers transitioning to automation, and developers alike, this course helps to equip you with the steps and skills needed to execute reliable automated tests in modern DevOps environments.

Concepts

Introduction

Let's build a reliable Selenium test suite

Selenium Sessions for Real Apps

Starting sessions with a WebDriver factory
Configuring Selenium capabilities
Tuning browser options
Logging Selenium sessions

Locating Dynamic Elements with Confidence

Choosing web element locators
Using XPath locators
Recognizing brittle locators
Managing WebElement lists
Avoiding stale element errors
Accessing Shadow DOM elements

Complex Forms and Real UI Widgets

Automating native and custom dropdowns
Uploading and downloading files
Creating element wrappers
Designing test data wrappers
Wrapping pages with page objects

Advanced Actions

Using input devices with the Actions class
Simulating keyboard typing
Simulating mouse movement and clicks
Scrolling pages and frames

Browsing Contexts and Prompts

Switching in and out of frames
Managing multiple windows
Handling JavaScript user prompts
Executing JavaScript commands
Setting state with cookies

Flakiness and Synchronization

Using implicit waits effectively
Building explicit wait functions
Configuring fluent waits
Applying expected conditions

Running with Docker

Running tests with Docker
Integrating Docker tests into CI pipeline