2. What should I know prior to learning selenium ?

I have written this blog in such a way that you can understand the Selenium Automation concepts even if you don't know the following prerequisites that are required for learning Selenium Automation.

You don't have to learn any of the pre-requisites mentioned in this post, all of them will be explained when required in this blog when required.

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Blog Contents 

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Software Testing Basics: We need to learn the following Software Testing Basics before we start learning Selenium:

1. What is Software Testing?
2. What is Manual Testing?
3. What is Automation Testing?
4. What is Smoke Testing?
5. What is Regression Testing?
6. What is Functional Testing?

Following the above pre-requisites, you can learn the 'Automation Testing Basics'

Automation Testing Basics: We need to learn the following Automation Testing Basics before we start learning Selenium:

• Learn Test Automation Basics

Apart from the Software Testing Basics and Automation Testing Basics, we should also learn the HTML Basics, which will make your understanding of upcoming Locators concepts easier:

HTML Basics: We need to learn the following Automation Testing Basics before we start learning Selenium:

• Learn HTML Basics

Followed by the above mentioned HTML Basics, we need to learn the Locators concepts:

Locators: We need to use the locators for helping Selenium in identifying the UI elements on the Web Pages.

• Locators will be explained when required in this blog series.

Core Java: Core Java programming language knowledge is required for learning Selenium.

• Core Java required for Selenium will be explained from scratch in the upcoming articles in this blog. If you are a beginner and are afraid to start learning Selenium because of Java, just don't panic as I will be explaining Java for Selenium in the detailed and easier manner in the upcoming articles.

Notes -

• My suggestion for complete beginners is not to skip even one post in my blog as you may not understand few blog posts if you skip any. Read this blog from Post#One and go on to the last post without missing any post.
• Java concepts that are required by Selenium Automation are explained on Eclipse IDE tool in the upcoming articles in a detailed and easier manner. 
• I have tried my level best in making the posts easy to understand and also the blog is practical than being theoretical.
• You can learn Selenium from this blog, even if you don't know anything about Selenium Automation.
• This blog is perfectly suitable for complete beginners.
• This blog will also include the advanced concepts which will be explained once all the basic concepts are explained.
• This blog will get updated regularly to make it more complete and to increase the quality.

By,
Arun Motoori
Author of this Blog: www.selenium-by-arun.blogspot.com
Founder at www.QAFox.com

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