Selenium

Selenium is one of the most widely used open source Web UI (User Interface) automation testing suite.

Selenium can be easily deployed on platforms such as Windows, Linux, Solaris and Macintosh. Moreover, it supports OS (Operating System) for mobile applications like iOS, windows mobile and android.

Selenium automates web browsers, performing actions like:

• Navigating to web pages
• Clicking buttons and links
• Filling out forms
• Verifying page content

Selenium has two main components:

1. Selenium WebDriver: Controls browser interactions, simulating user actions.
2. Selenium IDE: A record-and-playback tool for creating test cases without coding.

Why Selenium?

1. Open-source: Free to use, modify, and distribute.
2. Multi-browser support: Test across Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, and Internet Explorer.
3. Cross-platform: Run tests on Windows, macOS, Linux, and mobile devices.
4. Flexibility: Supports various programming languages and frameworks.
5. Large community: Extensive documentation, tutorials, and community support.
6. Extensive API: Offers a wide range of commands for complex test scenarios.
7. Integration: Easily integrates with CI/CD tools, test management tools, and frameworks.
8. Scalability: Supports distributed testing using Selenium Grid.
9. Cost-effective: Reduces testing time and costs by automating repetitive tasks.
10. Widespread adoption: Industry-standard tool, widely used in the testing community.

Use of Automation Testing

1. Faster Testing: Automates repetitive and time-consuming tests, reducing testing time.
2. Increased Coverage: Executes a large number of tests in a short time, covering more test cases.
3. Improved Accuracy: Minimizes human error, ensuring consistent and reliable results.
4. Early Defect Detection: Identifies defects early in the development cycle, reducing fix time and costs.
5. Reduced Testing Costs: Saves time and resources by automating repetitive tests.
6. Enhanced Test Data Management: Easily manages large datasets and test inputs.
7. Cross-Browser and Cross-Platform Testing: Tests applications across different browsers, platforms, and devices.
8. Regression Testing: Quickly verifies changes didn’t break existing functionality.
9. Performance Testing: Simulates load and stress to measure application performance.
10. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Integrates testing into the development pipeline, ensuring continuous quality.

11. Improved Test Maintenance: Easy to maintain and update test scripts.
12. Reducing Manual Testing Effort: Focuses manual testing on high-risk, complex areas.
13. Improved Test Reporting: Provides detailed reports and analytics.
14. Compliance and Security Testing: Automates testing for compliance and security standards.
15. User Experience (UX) Testing: Tests for user interface and user experience issues.

Selenium Components

1. Selenium WebDriver: Controls browser interactions, simulating user actions.
2. Selenium IDE: A record-and-playback tool for creating test cases without coding.
3. Selenium Grid: Allows for distributed testing, running tests on multiple machines and browsers.
4. Selenium Client Libraries: Programming language-specific libraries (e.g., Java, Python, Ruby, C#) for writing test scripts.
5. Selenium Server: Acts as a proxy between the WebDriver and the browser, enabling remote testing.
6. Selenium WebDriver API: A set of APIs for interacting with web elements and browsers.
7. Selenium Browser Drivers: Browser-specific drivers (e.g., ChromeDriver, GeckoDriver) for controlling browsers.
8. Selenium Test Runner: Tools like TestNG or JUnit for executing and managing test cases.

These components work together to enable comprehensive web application testing using Selenium.

Additional Components:

1. Selenium Builder: A Firefox extension for creating test cases without coding.
2. Selenium RC (Remote Control): An older component, now deprecated, for remote testing.
3. Selenium Core: The underlying JavaScript library for Selenium, used by Selenium IDE and RC.

Selenium with Java

Module 1: Selenium Introduction

• What is Selenium and Why Selenium
• Use of Automation Testing?
• Explanation of Selenium and its advantages
• Differences between Selenium and QTP
• Selenium Components

Module 2: OOPs concepts and Core Java Introduction

• OOPs concepts
• Setup Java environment – Download JDK and Setup eclipse
• Class, Object, variables, methods, Packages
• Conditions and loops
• Access and non-access modifiers
• Advanced Java Programming
• Interfaces, Inheritance
• Collections, Exceptions

Module 3: Selenium IDE and RC Introduction

• Installing Selenium IDE
• “Selenese” – Selenium Commands
• Actions, Asserts, Assessors.
• Developing Test Cases & Test Suites with Selenium-IDE
• Introduction to Selenium RC

Module 5: Installations

• eclipse-Oxygen
• Set up JDK 1.8
• Firefox 47.0.1, firebug and file path
• Set up TestNG, Maven and Selenium (2.53.1 &3.0 +) for eclipse

Module 6: Selenium WebDriver 2.0 and 3.0 Introduction

• Selenium WebDriver Introduction
• WebDriver Vs RC
• Download and Configure WebDriver with Eclipse
• Simple TestcaseOpen and Close Browser
• Cross Browser Testing – Firefox, IE, Chrome, Edge.
• UI elements Locators.
• Identifying WebElement using id, name, link text,Partial LinkText class Name, XPath, CssSelector and TagName.
• Handling various WebElement using WebDriver
• Handling Mouse movements and Keyboard Events
• Gecko-Driver
• Verification Commands
• How to get Title
• How to get Current Url
• How to get PageScource
• How to get WindowHandel
• How to get WindowHandels
• How to get Text
• How to get Attributes
• Validation commands:
• IsSelected
• IsEnabled
• IsDisplayed
• How to operate with WebTable
• How to Handel Alerts in webpage
• Switch Commands:
• how to switch windows or Tabs.
• how to switch Alerts.
• How to operate with calanders
• Synchronization Commands:
• sleep();
• ImplicitWait
• ExplisitWait
  • File uploading using Auto-It and Robot.

Module 7: Testing Framework and Tools

• Introduction of the Testing framework
• Types of frameworks
• Tools for developing Test Framework
• TestNG introduction and Configuration with eclipse
• TestNG Annotations and Data Providers
• Creating Test Suit with TestNG

Module 8: Framework

• Moduler Frame work
• POM
• Data driven
• paramitarization
• Hybrid Framework

Module 9: Develop Hybrid Framework

• Developing Hybrid Framework for Web Application using WebDriver /TestNG and Maven
• Use external Data for Testing (Excel sheet, XML files, Property file)
• Reading and understanding reports
• Screenshots of failed Test case

Module 10: Configuration Management

• Jenkins Installation
• Maven Installation
• Dependencies and configure Maven Project
• Integrate Maven projects in Jenkins

Selenium with Python

Module 1: Introduction

• Why do we need Selenium?
• Selenium with Java vs. Python (pros and cons)
• Program structure

Module 2: Python Programming

• Basic Programming in Python
• Function & Parameters in Python
• Python Data structures and operation
• File Operations
• Modules
• Object Oriented Programming

Module 3: Execution steps

• Environment setup(python, Pycharm, Selenium and etc.,)
• Introduction with Python and Pycharm
• First Script on Selenium

Module 4: Selenium- Web Driver

• Introduction to Web driver and Remote vs. Local
• Guide to install Web driver
• Creating your first script on Web driver
• Accessing Forms in Web driver
• Accessing Links and Table content in Web driver
• Remote web driver

Module 5: Automation Framework

• Advanced Web element access method- Contains, Sibling, Ancestor and etc.,
• Framework designing methods
• Framework adaptation
• Feature Testing Automation
• Report Generation out of Automation
• Real time Automation and the Challenges

Module 6: PyAutoGUI – Controlling Mouse and Keyboard

• Introduction to pyautogui
• Accessing Flash content using pyautogui
• Controlling Keyboard and Mouse events on web driver

Selenium with C#

Module 1: Collapse Selenium IDE

• Introduction
• Record & Playback
• Command types
• Using Verifications
• Using Asserts
• Exporting Test Case/Suite to C#/NUnit

Module 2: Collapse Selenium Webdriver

• Introduction
• Setting up new project
• Project Structure
• Understanding DOM Structure
• Finding Elements
• Assert Types
• Working with Dynamic Elements (Radio/Checkbox/DropDown/Select Element)
• Tables and Data grid
• XPath
• Embedded JavaScript
• Cross Platform Browser Testing

Module 3: Collapse Selenium Framework & Infrastructure

• Creating Data Driven Tests (XML/DB/Excel)
• Linq queries (DDT)

Post Selenium

Maven

• Introduction to Apache Maven
• Maven Dependencies
• Maven Plugins
• Controlling The Build
• Maven Release Process
• Deploying to a Repository
• Using Snapshots

GIT

• Introduction To Git
• Working Locally With Git
• Working Remotely With Git
• Branching, Merging And Rebasing With Git
• Using The GitHub Website
• GitHub For Windows Basics
• Teamwork With GitHub For Windows
• Social Coding With GitHub

Jenkins

• Continuous Integration or Continuous Deployment concepts
• Installing and Configuring Jenkins
• Freestyle Project Configuration
• Jenkins Pipelines
• Testing With Jenkins
• Pipeline Enhancements
• Multi-branch Pipelines and Code Promotion

BitBucket

• Gradle-plugins
• Working with files
• Ant Integration
• Dependency Management
• Extending the model
• Task inputs & outputs
• The Java plugin
• Multiproject builds
• The build runtime

JIRA

• Introduction To JIRA
• Test Management In JIRA (Zephyr)
• Advanced Search And Introduction To JQL (JIRA Query Language)
• Generating Reports In JIRA
• Introduction To JIRA Agile

 Agile Methodologies

• Agile Methodologies Overview
• Agile Scrum
• Agile ceremonies
• Agile artifacts
• Kanban
• Adaptive Project Framework (APF)
• Extreme Project Management (XPM)

API Testing

• Set-up of API Test environment
• Types of Output of an API
• Test Cases for API Testing
• Approach of API Testing
• Difference between API testing and Unit testing
• What to test for in API testing
• Best Practices of API Testing
• Types of Bugs that API Testing detects
• Tools for API Testing
• Challenges of API Testing

SOAPUI

• Introduction to SOAP UI
• Functional API testing
• Supported Protocols/Technologies
• SOAP-INTEGRATION with Other Automation Tools
• SOAP UI Vs Selenium:
• SOAP UI Vs SOAP UI PRO
• SOAP UI PRO Version
• SOAP UI – Version Timelines

Postman

• Postman Introduction
• Working with GET Requests
• Working with POST Requests
• Parameterize Requests
• Create Postman Tests
• Create Collections
• Run Collections using Collection Runner