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Selenium is an open-source automation licensed under Apache License 2.0. Selenium is more applicable to test only web applications. This tutorial provides in-depth understanding of Selenium and its related tools with practical usage.
Audience
This tutorial is developed for software testing professionals who wish to learn the basics of Selenium. It covers the concepts to work with Selenium to go to the expert level.
Prerequisites
To learn this tutorial one must have basic understanding of Java or any other object-oriented programming language. Having knowledge on the fundamentals of testing concepts will be an added advantage.
Selenium Tutorial: List of Topics
- Getting Started With Selenium Ide
- Browser Installation
- What Is Selenium Ide
- Time For Action – Installing Selenium Ide
- Selenium Ide
- Important Note: Rules For Automation
- Time For Action – Recording Your First Test With Selenium Ide
- Updating A Test To Assert Items Are On The Page
- Time For Action – Updating A Test To Verify Items On The Page
- Comments - Selenium 2 Testing Tools
- Time For Action – Adding Selenium Ide Comments
- Multiplying Windows
- Time For Action – Working With Multiple Windows
- Time For Action – Complex Working With Multiple Windows
- Selenium Tests Against Ajax Applications
- Time For Action – Working On Pages With Ajax
- Time For Action – Working With Ajax Applications
- Storing Information From The Page In The Test
- Time For Action – Storing Elements From The Page
- Debugging Tests
- Time For Action – Debugging Tests
- Test Suites
- Time For Action – Creating Test Suites
- Saving Tests
- What You Cannot Record
- Locators
- Important Points About Relevant Applications
- Locating Elements By Id
- Time For Action - Finding Ids Of Elements On The Page With Firebug
- Time For Action - Finding Elements By Id
- Moving Elements On The Page
- Time For Action - Finding Elements By Name
- Adding Filters To The Name
- Time For Action - Finding Elements By Link Text
- Time For Action - Finding Elements By Accessing The Dom Via Javascript
- Time For Action - Finding Elements By Xpath
- Time For Action – Finding Elements By Direct Xpath
- Using Xpath Axis To Find Elements
- Time For Action – Using Xpath Axis
- Css Selectors
- Time For Action - Finding Elements By Css
- Time For Action – Finding The Nth Element With Css
- Overview Of Selenium Webdriver
- Design Patterns
- Important Points To Remember
- Page Objects
- Time For Action – Setting Up The Test
- Time For Action – Moving Selenium Steps Into Private Methods To Make Tests Maintainable
- Time For Action – Using The Page Object Pattern To Design Tests
- Using Page Factories With Page Objects
- Time For Action – Using Pagefactory
- Loadablecomponent
- Time For Action – Changing Our Page Object To Use Loadable Component
- Finding Elements
- Prior Points To Consider
- Finding Elements
- Time For Action – Using Findelementbyid()
- Time For Action – Using Findelementsbyid()
- Time For Action – Using Findelementbyname()
- Time For Action – Using Findelementsbyname()
- Time For Action – Using Findelementbyclassname()
- Time For Action – Using Findelementsbyclassname()
- Time For Action – Using Findelementbyxpath()
- Time For Action – Using Findelementsbyxpath()
- Time For Action – Using Findelementbylinktext()
- Time For Action – Using Findelementsbylinktext()
- Finding Elements Using A More Generic Method
- Time For Action – Using Findelement()
- Time For Action – Using Findelements()
- Tips And Tricks To Find An Element
- Time For Action – Using Implicit Waits
- Time For Action – Using Explicit Waits With Selenium Webdriver
- Working With Webdriver
- Preliminary Action
- Working With Firefoxdriver
- Time For Action – Loading The Firefoxdriver
- Time For Action – Setting Firefox Preferences
- Time For Action – Installing The Add-on
- Working With Chromedriver
- Time For Action – Starting Google Chrome Or Chromium
- Time For Action – Using Chromeoptions
- Working With Operadriver
- Time For Action – Starting Opera
- Time For Action – Working With Operaprofile
- Working With Internetexplorerdriver
- Time For Action – Working With Internet Explorer
- Other Important Points
- Mobile Devices
- Important Initial Points
- Working With Android
- Time For Action – Creating An Emulator
- Time For Action – Installing The Android Server
- Time For Action – Using The Android Driver
- Running With Operadriver On A Mobile Device
- Time For Action – Using Operadriver On Opera Mobile
- Working With Ios
- Time For Action – Setting Up The Simulator
- Time For Action – Setting Up On A Real Device
- Time For Action – Using The Iphone Driver
- Getting Started With Selenium Grid
- Understanding Selenium Grid
- Selenium Grid Hub
- Time For Action – Launching The Hub
- Adding Instances To The Hub
- Time For Action – Adding A Server With The Defaults
- Adding Selenium Remote Controls For Different Machines
- Time For Action – Adding Selenium Server For Different Machines
- Adding Selenium Server To Do Specific Browser Tasks On Specific Operating Systems
- Time For Action – Setting The Environment When Starting Selenium Remote Control
- Using Selenium Grid 2 With Your Yaml File
- Time For Action – Using Selenium Grid 1 Configuration
- Running Tests Against The Grid
- Time For Action – Writing Tests Against The Grid
- Running Tests In Parallel
- Time For Action – Getting Our Tests Running In Parallel
- Advanced User Interactions
- Basic Points To Note
- What Is The Advanced User Interactions
- Actions
- Time For Action – Creating An Actions Chain For Dragging And Dropping
- Time For Action – Moving An Element With A Drag-and-drop By Offset
- Time For Action – Doing A Context Click
- Time For Action – Selecting Multiple Items On A Select Item
- Time For Action – Holding The Mouse Button Down While Moving The Mouse
- Working With Html5
- Important Preparatory Points
- Working With Application Cache
- Time For Action – Getting The Current Status Of Application Cache
- Interacting With Browser Connections
- Time For Action – Seeing If The Browser Is Online
- Time For Action – Setting The Browser Connection To Offline Or Online
- Working With Webstorage
- Time For Action – Accessing Localstorage
- Time For Action – Accessing Sessionstorage
- Advanced Topics
- Capturing Screenshots
- Time For Action – Capturing Images As Base64 Strings
- Time For Action – Saving Images To Bytes
- Time For Action – Saving A Screenshot To File
- Using Xvfb With Selenium
- Time For Action – Setting Up Xvfb Server
- Time For Action – Running Tests With Xvfb
- Working With Browsermob Proxy
- Time For Action – Starting The Proxy
- Time For Action – Capturing Network Traffic
- Migrating From Remote Control To Webdriver
