Using Selenium with Workshop

On completion of the course, attendees will understand how to configure Selenium and how to automate tests using the tool.

Introduction

• Automation Overview
• Core skills taught on the course

Selenium IDE

• Overview of Selenium IDE and available add-ins
• Recording and replay of a Selenium IDE Test
• Object recognition tools ChroPath.
• Assertions and Verifications
• Exporting a Selenium IDE Test as Java

Creating Selenium Scripts in IntelliJ

• Configuring a new C# project in IntelliJ
• Creating a basic automated test and a test suite
• Executing a test and test suite through IntelliJ
• Importing a test from Selenium IDE

Selenium WebDriver

• Components of Selenium Webdriver in JUnit
• Annotations in WebDriver
• Interacting with the AUT: Object locators
• Actions on WebElements

Data Driving Selenium Tests

• Use of data sources (e.g. Excel spreadsheets, CSV files, databases) to provide increased maintainability flexibility.

Debugging and coding

Debugging skills are a critical and often overlooked part of learning how to automate tests.

This section teaches basic debugging within intelliJ, including:

• Setting breakpoints
• Retrieving values on-the-fly
• Stepping through code
• Observing the Application under Test
• Making deductions
• Building and testing a hypothesis

Page Object Model

The Page Object Model enables reusablee code to provide a maintainable automation framework.

Areas covered include:

• Introducing the Page Object Model
• Accessing the page objects in a test script

Object Recognition

Object recognition is one of the commonest issues  automation testers have to face. A number of techniques and approaches can be used, including:

• Why it is difficult to identify an object.
• Choice of element locator
• Use of multiple locator properties
• Use of XPath or CSS syntax and patterns
• Use of ordinal identifiers
• Using ChroPath to write more stable locators
• Descriptive programming for dynamic objects
• How to navigate web iframes

Selenium Workshop

A series of hands-on learning exercises including:

• Selenium IDE: Creating a new test
• IntelliJ: Importing the new Selenium test into a newly created Java project
• Page Objects: Converting the script to use them
• Asserts: For both positive and negative test
• Data driving: simple and complex.

Although it is beneficial that attendees have a coding background (ideally in Java), this is not essential. The code examples used during the course are available in the training environment for attendees less experienced in Java to access.

• ISAQB® Certified Professional for Software Architecture - Foundation Level (CPSA-F)
• ISTQB® Certified Tester: Advanced Level Test Analyst
• ISTQB® Certified Tester – Foundation Level
• Requirements Verification

• Agile testers
• Test automation specialists looking to learn Selenium
• Testers wishing to become test automation specialists.