Selenium Tutorials

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This is some thing which has been keeping me on edge from long and mushrooming Selenium Training Institutes in India and around the world are only pushing me more. What I don't appreciate about these training institutes -

• A hefty fee. Selenium is free, should not training be free also?

• No contribution to Selenium what so ever. Claiming to be Selenium expert, earning money on training and no willingness to participate in Selenium development, helping selenium users on various forums or assisting SeleniumHQ in any way. 

• Shameless copy of Selenium doc with out any reference. One such reference here (Since I linked it here, page has been removed from site). Wonder how much of their training material is derived from SeleniumHQ.

•  Learn Selenium in days of training or videos.  I assume this pressure of learning things quickly is derived from sudden need to finish an automation job for the contract your employee got of late.  When I had begun with Selenium about 4 years ago. I did not know J of java and what helped me most was, Google and Clear Space forum at OpenQA (The forum is been disabled now and Selenium forum is available at Google Group and also linked on this site). And I eventually became co author of official Selenium doc.

So what could be the solution. Share the knowledge, blog about what you have learnt in Selenium and not just Selenium any other tool or Manual testing or any other field of software testing. Participating in forums are the one of the best way to learn and share your knowledge with others. Organize local group on Selenium training. If physical location is not possible then Skype, WebEx, Zoom or some other software can help, especially when wanting to converse others located elsewhere.

Having said that I have been thinking to provide free selenium training either online or at a physical location. Topic, Place, Meeting time could be decided when a good number of  participants are ready to commit. Want to discuss it more follow this thread. This is my way of sharing what little I have learned about web automation in past few years. And I am in no way wanting to enforce my methods. I may know something, I might be wrong in my approach towards certain aspects of automation. It's for you to decide and follow what best suites your need.

n.b. Why limit it to only Selenium why not encompass other free/open source tools like - Jmeter? Have more ideas?

VIDEO TUTORIALS -

I have started conducting online Selenium Session. A few of you asked me to keep all video recordings URLs in one place for ease of accessibility. I would keep this page updated with all Selenium Training meet videos.
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Selenium training videos are linked in the following table.

Will I master Selenium after following these video?

Unfortunately not, Selenium like any other topic can not be learnt from just one source of information. You need to strive hard to master Selenium or any other skill (full stop).

If you are new to java programming then head over to  Java Training Videos first.

Selenium Training Topic	Selenium Training Video
How much java to learn for Selenium -   OOPS - Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance, Polymorphism Introduction to Class, instance variable, instance methods, class variable, class method, Object Constructor, Abstract Class, Interface, method overloading, method overriding, Package Loops - To execute same statements time and again, for example logging in for 5 different accounts using same method Arrays - You don't want to keep writing variables all overs you test scripts	Java and Selenium Webdriver
Understanding Selenium and Element location techniques - What is Selenium? Selenium Suite of tools - Selenium IDE, Selenium 1, Selenium 2 and Grid Limitations of Selenium 1 and how Selenium 2 addresses them Which Selenium tools fits my needs - Selenium IDE, Selenium 2 or Grid? Object location strategies - id, name, xPath, css selectors - Which one to use and when? Using Firebug and Chrome Console	Element locators and Selenium
Beginning with WebDdriver and writing your first Selenium tests - Using nth locator in CSS Selenium IDE Firefox and Chrome Driver Basics of TestNG framework and using it with Selenium	Beginning with WebDriver and TestNG Selenium Training Session Project Download
Java Collection framework and Page Object Pattern - Java Collection framework - List and Set Map class Page object pattern for writing robust Selenium tests	Cont. Java and Selenium Page Object Pattern Selenium Training Project Download
Test Design - Page Object Revisited Optimizing Page Object methods Using TestNG data provider method to do data driven testing Executing java script from WebDriver	Designing Maintainable Selenium Tests

Test Design cont. and Introduction to Maven - Page Factory Pattern Data externalization using properties files Capture application screen shot only during test failure (TestNG + Selenium) Introduction to Maven and mavenizing your Selenium project

Page Factory Pattern and Mavenizing Selenium Project Selenium Project Download

Test Design cont. Introduction to Selenium grid- Soft assertion in Test (continuing test execution of method even if one assert fails) Using csv file for test data, Watching test data in TestNG Report Using Selenium Grid to scale your tests

Soft assertion and Data Driven Testing using Selenium Selenium Training Project Download

Jenkins Marries Selenium Introduction to jenkins Download and Install jenkins Set up free style project to find version of java Set up Selenium project for jenkins (Sample project from 7th Selenium training session) -http://manual-and-automated-testing.1070.x6.nabble.com/Selenium-Training-Project-for-12th-December-Data-Driven-Testing-using-Selenium-td5001553.html Configure maven on jenkins - http://localhost:8080/configure Build maven2 Selenium project and runn Job View TestNG results Using Jenkins plugin

Run Selenium Tests from Jenkins

SeleniumTestsFramework (STF) Step by step reporting  SeleniumTestsFramework (STF)

What is STF? Awesome STF Test Reports 5 minutes guide to STF Installing STF Download STF Jar STF Parameters Set up your own Web Driver Using Custom Firefox Profile Using Chrome Browser

How to Instantiate WebDriver What is wrong with instantiating WebDriver on base class set up? How to instantiate WebDriver to save resources

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Security Testing and Selenium What is dynamic application security testing ZAP set up with Selenium Passive scanning using ZAP and selenium Security test report

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Dealing with multiple form objects Form with many fields How to not write bloated data objects Builder pattern comes for rescue

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IDEA hacks This session covers - Refactor - > Encapsulate fields Refactor - rename Code generation - > Generate getter, setters, toString, equals etc. Ex Conditional Debug points Cmd + shift +a to search anything Analyze stacktrace

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Intro to java 8 and selenium using java 8 This session covers -   Why is java 8 so popular? I do not java yet : -/ What is FunctionalInterface? Functional programming and Lambda Interface having method with no argument Interface having method with one argument What if AnimalHavingMethodArgument has two abstract methods? And what next? > Future training videos sneak peak using java 8 and selenium?

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Java 8 part 2: Stream filter operations and Selenium WebDriver This session covers - List operations in java 8 Using stream with List Filter stream FindFirst Intro to method references Intermediate operations (i.e. filter, map) Terminal operation (forEach, findFirst, reduce, collect) WebDriver and list examples using java 8

java-8-part-2-Stream filter operations and Selenium WebDriver

Java 8 part 3: Stream map operations and Selenium WebDriver This session covers - Some more gran on lambda Intro. to Stream > map api (Forget about Map api for now :)) How lambda returns a value? Using predicate static variable and method references WebDriver and map examples using java 8 Debugging map operation on data point

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Java 8 part 4: Optional and Selenium WebDriver This session covers - Java 8 part 4: Optional and Selenium WebDriver (yes learning Optional is not optional :)) Why Optional > What happen when data is null Optional > an object which may or may not contain non null values (some prefer to call it empty value) Do you remember where we used Optional?  :) com.seleniumtests.java8.ListExamples class > findFirst() Creating Optional using - of, ofNullable, orElse   WebDriver examples with Optional >     Default locale Testing with different data sets i.e. lower and upper case

java-8-part-4-optional-and-selenium-webdriver

Java 8 part 5: IntStream, sum, avg, reduce, file reading operations and SeleniumWebDriver This session covers - Method implementation on interface with java 8 - static and default methods, wtf?? IntStream.range() More Stream operations -     sum, sort, average And how do I add double numbers? Reading from file Collectors.toMap  Where are the WebDriver examples??

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Java 8 part 6: Stream cont. and Selenium WebDriver This session covers - Different ways of creating Stream empty stream, stream of collection, stream of string objects, stream builder, stream generate method with limit and iterate Stream of primitives int, long and double streams using IntStream, LongStream, DoubleStream interfaces Stream of File Streams can not be reused How to eliminate expensive operations And what is parallel stream??  And some WebDriver examples

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Java 8 part 7: Back to basics and Selenium WebDriver This session covers - PECS > Producer extends Consumer super Remember Generics which provide type safety?: https://www.seleniumtests.com/p/java-training-tutorial-videos.html What are “extends”, “super” and bounded wild card? <? extends T> and <? super T> WTF ???  map(Function<? super T, ? extends R> mapper) example from com.seleniumtests.tests.web.SeleniumWithJava8Session6#usingJava8 forEach(Consumer<? super T> action) PECS on Jav8 > Stream examples -

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Generic Selenium and Automation Tutorials Some of the tutorials are for Selenium 1 but concept can be easily applied to Web Driver

Using Chrome console to test xPath and css selectors Mouse Over Dom Do you verify text in right place? Selenium IDE compared with other tools HTML parsing and selenium Generating dates in java xPath and single quotes So many selenium tools - part 1 So many selenium tools - part 2 How much java to learn Selenium and pattern matching How do you verify gmail using Selenium? How to write bad UI automation code ;-) Selenium vs QTP Headless Browser testing with Selenium Selenium 2 methods are not weird Capture network traffic using WebDriver Setup Driver in STF Using different FF profile on STF How to get rid of duplicate element locators Introducing Navigation API for Automated Testing How "should" you name your test method? Where is my Defect-ID Where is my Test Data ? Do you need BDD style of tests? Should selenium tests be dependent? When test automation fails What else should page object test? Are your selenium element locators static? Actions and Operations APIs When page returns more than one type of page object  Is page object returning page object a bad practice Catching java script errors with WebDriver Automatic java script error detection with STF Structure of Test Automation project Removing duplicate page objects File upload and WebDriver (Where is my File?) do-you-check-for-absence-of-element-on-a- page   how-can-you-save-resources-when instantiating driver   security-testing-and-selenium.html

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