Using Selenium 3.0

Course outline


Introduction

• Automation Overview
• Core skills taught on the course
• Selenium IDE

Overview of Selenium IDE

• Available add-ins
• Recording and replay of a Selenium IDE test
• Firebug, Firepath and other object recognition tools
• Assertions and Verifications
• Exporting a Selenium IDE test as Java

Creating Selenium Scripts in Eclipse IDE

• Installing and configuring Eclipse
• Creating a basic automated test and a test suite
• Executing a test and test suite through Eclipse
• Importing a test from Selenium IDE

Selenium WebDriver

• Components of a Selenium Webdriver test 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 the basics of how to debug in the Eclipse IDE, including:

• Setting breakpoints
• Retrieving values on-the-fly
• Stepping through code
• Using observations from the application under test and data source
• Making deductions
• Building and testing a hypothesis

Page Object Model

The Page Object Model allows the reuse of code, essential for constructing a maintainable automation framework. Areas covered include:

• Introducing the Page Object Model: concept of re-use
• The concept of Public and Private and its uses
• How to access the page objects in a test script

Object Recognition

Object recognition is one of the commonest issues that an automation tester will have to face. Fortunately, there are a number of techniques and approaches that can be used to identify troublesome objects. This module includes:
Why it is hard to identify an object. The need to be unique, stable, navigable.

• Choice of element locator
• Use of multiple locator properties
• Use of XPath or CSS
• Use of Xpath and CSS patterns
• Use of ordinal identifiers
• XPath and CSS syntax: how to use the firepath tool to write more stable locators
• Descriptive programming for dynamic objects
• How to navigate web iframes

Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and Cucumber

Companies are increasingly turning towards Agile approaches, and behaviour-driven development (BDD) in particular, to resolve issues of out-of-date documentation and siloed working. This bonus lesson offers a brief overview of the fundamental principles of BDD and then shows the significant features of a BDD framework. The module includes:

• Feature files
• Step definitions
• Runner classes
• An outside-in test driven approach to developing an automation test.