Using Selenium Practical Workshop

This one day course naturally follows on from the course T60400 Using Selenium, and covers the following:


Brief recap of areas covered within T60400 Using Selenium course

Salient areas covered by introductory course including:

WebDriver

Data driving
Debugging Activities
Page Object Model
Object Recognition
Behaviour Driven Development

Create a new Selenium test
Students will record a new test within the Selenium IDE, export the test into Java, load this test into a new Java Project within Eclipse and get it to run successfully.

Convert to Page Objects
Students are reintroduced to the concept of reusable Page Objects. They will need to refactor their code to replace hard-coded object references with more highly maintainable Page Objects.

Add an assert check
Students will recall that a test must include a check, or assertion and will add an assert to their existing automation script

Page Objects
Students are reintroduced to the concept of reusable Page Objects. They are led through an exercise where they refactor their code to replace hard-coded object references with more highly maintainable Page Objects.

Data Driving
This exercise is used as the basis of delivering a series of increasingly complex coding exercises, at a pace that a typical student will be comfortable with.
The exercise addresses the following concepts:
Generation and evaluation of coding options to solve a coding problemGood coding practice regarding modifying existing codeComparison of student’s code with a standard answerRecommended practice regarding avoiding unnecessary coding complexityExpansion of test coverage through data driving the scriptRefactoring of code for robustness and simplicityCreativity and thinking out of the box when scriptingAnticipating the business likely future requirements, and how this may affect the solution


Reporting
The student will need to record results to Excel, to provide a permanent record of a test run, thus allowing better visibility of the automation suite and greater value to management.