SELINIUM

Selenium Training – Master Automation Testing

📖 Introduction

In today’s Agile and DevOps-driven IT landscape, ensuring the quality of web applications is crucial. Manual testing alone cannot keep up with the speed of modern development cycles. This is where Selenium, the world’s most widely used open-source automation testing tool, plays a key role.


📘 Training Coverage

1. Introduction to Selenium & Automation Testing

Understanding the need for test automation
Overview of the Selenium Suite: IDE, WebDriver, Grid

Setting up Selenium with Java, Eclipse/IntelliJ

Comparison with other automation tools

2. Core Java Essentials (for Automation)

OOPs concepts in Java

Loops, conditions, collections, exception handling

File handling & external libraries

Unit testing basics with JUnit/TestNG

3. Selenium WebDriver – Core Concepts

WebDriver architecture & setup

Locators (ID, XPath, CSS, LinkText, etc.)

Automating forms, checkboxes, and dropdowns

Handling alerts, frames, and browser windows

Waits (implicit, explicit, fluent)

4. Advanced WebDriver Usage

Actions class for mouse & keyboard events

Capturing screenshots & logs

Data-driven testing with Excel/CSV (Apache POI)

Handling dynamic web elements

Test reporting & assertions

5. TestNG Framework Integration

TestNG annotations & execution model

Parameterization & data providers

Parallel test execution

Generating HTML/XML reports

6. Selenium Grid & Cloud Execution

Hub-node architecture of Selenium Grid

Cross-browser & cross-platform execution

Cloud testing platforms: BrowserStack, Sauce Labs

Running tests in Docker containers

7. Automation Framework Design

Page Object Model (POM) & Page Factory

Data-driven & keyword-driven frameworks

Hybrid framework development

BDD with Cucumber & Gherkin

Reusability & maintainability principles

8. CI/CD and Industry Integration

Version control with Git & GitHub

Continuous Integration with Jenkins

Build tools: Maven & Gradle

Generating advanced reports with ExtentReports/Allure

Role of Selenium in DevOps pipelines

9. Hands-on Projects

Automating login & checkout workflows for an e-commerce site

Regression suite for a banking/finance web app

Hybrid framework for a travel booking system

Cloud-based distributed test execution