Selenium Automation Testing Tutorial Contents

Introduction to Selenium
What is Selenium? What should I know prior to learning Selenium? Install Chropath Add-on on Chrome Browser How to use Chropath add-on in Chrome Browser? Install Firepath Add-on for Firefox How to use Firepath? Install Java JDK and Configure Install Eclipse IDE How to Launch Eclipse IDE? How to create projects in Eclipse IDE? Whats Next?
Selenium IDE
12.Install Selenium IDE     13.What is Selenium IDE ?     14.Record and Playback using Selenium IDE     15.Validating Elements using Selenium IDE     16.Validating Elements using Assert Mechanism     17.Validating Elements using Verify Mechanism     18.Viewing the source code of the steps recorded using Selenium IDE in our desired language     19.What are Locators ?     20.Different types of Locators to identify UI elements     21.Tools in Selenium to find out the Locators     22.Locate UI elements by ID     23.Locate UI elements by Name     24.Locate UI elements by Link     25.Locate UI elements by XPath     26.Locate UI elements by CSS     27.Finding locators for UI elements using the Selenium IDE's recording feature     Selenium IDE - The complete Reference     Still not satisfied with Selenium IDE, go through the other posts of Selenium IDE from the below page: Selenium IDE Tutorial - The complete Reference
Java + Eclipse for Selenium
28. Java for Selenium    29. What is Java ?    30. Install Java JDK    31. Configure Java    32. A Simple Java Program    33. TextPad Editor Installation    34. Write and execute Java Programs using TextPad tool    35. Object Oriented Programming    36. First Simple Java Program    37. Second Simple Java Program    38. 'int' data type    39. 'double' data type    40. 'long' data type    41. 'float' data type    42. 'char' data type    43. 'boolean' data type    44. Assigning  values to variables of different data type    45. Variable Declaration and Initialization    46. Scope of Variables    47. Type conversion    48. Arrays    49. Arithmetic Operators    50. Relational Operators    51. Boolean Logical Operators    52. Assignment and '?' operator    53. Operator Precedence    54. 'if' selection statements    55. 'switch' selection statements    56. 'while' iteration statements    57. 'do-while' iteration statements    58. 'for' iterative statements    59. 'break' jump statement    60. 'continue' jump statements    61. 'class' concept    62. Install Eclipse IDE    63. How to Launch Eclipse IDE    64. How to create projects in Eclipse IDE?    65. Run Java Programs in Eclipse IDE    66. 'class' is a template for an 'object'    67. Exporting a Java Project from Eclipse IDE    68. Importing a Java Project into Eclipse IDE    69. Declaring 'object' as an instance of a 'class'    70. How to use dot(.) operator    71. Methods    72. How does a method return a value ?    73. How does a method intake parameters ?    74. Constructors    75. 'this' keyword    76. Method Overloading    77. 'Constructor' Overloading    78. Using 'objects' as parameters    79. Argument Passing    80. Returning Objects    81. Recursion    82. 'Public' Access specifier    83. Default access specifier    84. 'private' access specifier    85. 'static' instance variables    86. 'static' methods    87. 'static' methods can only call 'static' methods    88. 'static' methods can only access 'static' variables    89. 'static' methods cannot refer to 'this' keyword    90. 'static' block    91. 'final' instance variable    92. 'length' array attribute    93. 'Nested' classes    94. 'String' class    95. Concatenate two string using '+' operator    96. Using 'equals( )' method for comparing two strings    97. Using 'length( )' method for finding the length of a string    98. Using 'charAt( )' method to retrieve the character from string text    99. String Arrays  100. Inheritance  101. subclass cannot access private members of superclass  102. Assigning subclass reference to superclass reference  103. Using 'super' keyword to access the instance variables of superclass  104. Using 'super' keyword to access the methods of 'superclass'  105. Calling 'Superclass' constructors using 'super' keyword  106. 'Multilevel' Hierarchy  107. Using 'super' in Multilevel Hierarchy  108. Explicitly invoke Super class constructors  109. 'Inheritance' and the order of executing constructors  110. Method Overriding  111. Dynamic Method Dispatch  112. Abstract Classes  113. Prevent overriding using 'final' keyword  114. Prevent Inheritance using 'final' keyword  115. Packages  116. 'Package' and Access Protection  117. Importing Packages  118. Interfaces  119. Class implementing multiple Interfaces  120. Singe Interface implemented by multiple classes  121. Superclass implementing an Interface and Subclass Inheriting it  122. Subclass implementing an Interface  123. Implementing the Interface containing variables  124. Accessing the overriding method of sub-class using superclass object  125. Interface References  126. Abstract methods in Superclass must be implemented in Subclass  127. Objects can't be created for abstract Classes  128. Abstract classes can partially implement the Interfaces  129. Interface inheriting another Interface  130. Exception Handling  131. What happens when we don't handle an exception ?  132. How to handle an exception ?  133. Using getChars( ) to extract more than one character from String Text  134. Using 'equalsIgnoreCase( )'  135. Using startsWith( ) and endsWith( ) methods  136. Using compareTo( ) method  137. Using indexOf( ) method  138. Using 'lastIndexOf( )' method  139. Using 'substring( )' method  140. Using 'concat( )' method  141. Using 'replace( )' method  142. Using 'trim( )' method  143. Using 'toLowerCase( )' and 'toUpperCase( )' methods  144. StringBuffer class  145. Using 'length( )' method with StringBuffer  146. Using 'charAt( )' method with StringBuffer  147. Using 'setCharAt( )' method with StringBuffer  148. Using 'getChars( )' method with StringBuffer  149. Using append( ) method with StringBuffer  150. Using 'insert( )' method with StringBuffer  151. Using 'reverse( )' method with StringBuffer  152. Using 'delete( )' method with StringBuffer  153. Using 'deleteCharAt( )' method with StringBuffer  154. Using 'replace( )' method with StringBuffer  155. Using 'substring( )' method with StringBuffer  156. Using 'indexOf( )' method with StringBuffer  157. Using 'lastIndexOf( ) method with StringBuffer  158. Using shortcuts for System.out.println( ) in Eclipse IDE  159. Renaming Java Projects, Packages and Classes in Eclipse IDE  160. Finding the Projects location in Eclipse IDE  161. Deleting the Java Project from Eclipse IDE  162. Exporting a Project, Deleting it from Eclipse IDE and importing it  163. Deleting the Java Project from the Eclipse IDE workspace path  164. Debugging the Java Programs in Eclipse IDE  165. Java Keywords in Eclipse IDE   166. Changing Font, Font Style and Font Size in Eclipse IDE  167. Understanding API (Application Programming Interface)  168. Understanding Java API  169. Java API as JRE System Library in Eclipse IDE   170. Understanding the JRE System Library in Eclipse IDE  171. Creating .jar file using Eclipse IDE  172. Using 'length' array attribute with 2 dimensional arrays  173. Using 'length' array attribute with 3 dimensional arrays  174. 'double' data type arrays  175. 'char' data type arrays  176. 'String' data type arrays  177. Defining and Creating Objects  178. Assigning 'Object Reference' variable  179. Data Types in Java  180. Primitive Data Types  181. Non-Primitive Data Types  182. Local Variables and Instance Variables  183. Java and Windows Command Prompt  184. For-each loop  185. varargs 'Variable Legth Arguments'   186. varargs parameter must be the last parameter in the method  187. varargs parameter must be used only once in a method  188. Creating more than one Class in a single Java Class file  189. Objects cant be created for Abstract Classes  190. Accessing members of Abstract Class using its subclass object  191. Assigning the SubClass reference to SuperClass and accessing members  192. Defining objects for Abstract Classes  193. Defining objects for Abstract Classes for accessing its abstract methods  194. Creating a sub class using Eclipse IDE options  195. Java Literals  196. Numeric Literals  197. Storing Integer Literals in long data type variables  198. Storing Floating Point Literals in float data type variables  199. Using Character Escape Sequences in String Literals  200. The Object Class   201. Object Class Methods  202. Using equals( ) method of Object Class  203. Printing an Object  204. Using toString( ) method of Object Class  205. Using toString( ) method of Object Class to print the values of the object  206. Using getClass( ) method of Object Class  207. Upcasting  208. Cannot Cast objects of Classes which are at same level in hierarchy  209. Downcasting  210. instanceof operator  211. Creating duplicate Classes in same project  212. Default Package  213. Creating Hierarchy of Packages  214. Understanding the Packages in Java API  215. Renaming the packages in Hierarchy  216. Interface implemented methods must be declared as public  217. Implementing the Nested Interfaces  218. Exception is an Object  219. Exception Hierarchy   220. Catching exceptions using Throwable Class  221. Catching exceptions using Exception Class  222. Catching arithmetic exceptions using ArithmeticException Class  223. Handling ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException  224. Using multiple catch blocks  225. Order of catch blocks  226. Handling exceptions using Exception Class for safe side  227. Methods of Throwable Class  228. Printing the exception details in different ways  229. Using getMessage( ) of Throwable Class  230. Using toString( ) of Throwable Class  231. Using printStackTrace( ) of Throwable Class  232. Using throw keyword in exception handling  233. Checked Exceptions  234. Using throws keyword in exception handling  235. Handling FileNotFoundException  236. Using finally in exception handling  237. Using finally block immediately after the try block  238. Nested try catch blocks  239. Catching Multiple Exceptions in a single catch block  240. Using Programmatic Method instead of Exception Handling  241. Wrapper Classes  242. Integer Wrapper Class  243. Byte Wrapper Class  244. Short Wrapper Class  245. Long Wrapper Class  246. Float Wrapper Class  247. Double Wrapper Class  248. Character Wrapper Class  249. Boolean Wrapper Class  250. Boxing and UnBoxing  251. AutoBoxing  252. Auto-UnBoxing  253. Implementing Auto-Boxing and Auto-UnBoxing in Methods  254. Implementing Auto-Boxing and Auto-UnBoxing in expressions  255. Compiler Compliance Level in Eclipse IDE  256. Object Arrays  257. Files  258. Creating a file using createNewFile( ) method  259. Creating files in your Project Workspace  260. Creating folders using mkdir( ) method  261. Using getPath( ) and getAbsolutePath( ) methods  262. Using exists( ) method  263. Methods of File Class  264. I/O Streams  265. Reading text file using read( ) method of FileReader I/O Class  266. Writing text to a file using write( ) method of FileWriter I/O Class  267. Append text in a file using append( ) method of FileWriter I/O Class  268. Using FileInputStream I/O Class  269. Using FileOutputSteam I/O Class  270. Reducing the object creation statements  271. Using PrintStream I/O Class  272. System.out.println( )  273. static import  274. Java auto imports all the classes in java.lang package    Selenium IDE - The complete Reference     Still not satisfied with Core Java, go through the other posts of  'Java for Selenium' from the below page: Java for Selenium Tutorial - The complete Reference
Selenium WebDriver
275. Introduction to Selenium WebDriver 276. Downloading the Selenium WebDriver 277. Configuring Projects in Eclipse IDE to work with Selenium WebDriver 278. Is Selenium Server required by Selenium WebDriver ? 279. Selenium RC versus Selenium Web Driver 280. Create a JUnit Selenium WebDriver Test using Selenium IDE 281. Ensure compatible Firefox Browser is installed 282. Run the Created Selenium WebDriver Test 283. Introduction to JUnit 284. Using JUnit annotation in our Selenium WebDriver Tests 285. Eclipse Automatically adds the Package Name into the newly created Java Class 286. Writing Selenium WebDriver Test on our own 287. Implementing JUnit Annotations 288. WebDriver Class and its Predefined Methods 289. 'get( )' - Selenium WebDriver method to open the specified URL page 290. manage( ).window( ).maximize( ) - to maximize the Browser window 291. manage( ).window( ).setSize( ) - to resize the Browser window 292. Using Thread.sleep(Millie Seconds) to pause the execution 293. quit( ) - Selenium WebDriver method for closing the Test Browser window 294. What are Locators ? 295. Different Types of Locators to identify UI elements 296. Tools in Selenium to find out the locators 297. Locate UI elements by ID 298. Locate UI elements by Name 299. Locate UI elements by Link 300. Locate UI elements by XPath 301. Locate UI elements by CSS 302. Finding locators for UI elements using the Selenium IDEs recording feature 303. click( ) - predefined method for clicking a Link 304. click( ) - predefined method for clicking a Button 305. Using sendKeys( ) predefined method for entering text 306. Using click( ) - predefined method to select a radio button 307. Using click( ) predefined method for selecting a check box option 308. Using sendKeys( ) predefined method to select a list item from the drop down list 309. Using getText( ) to retrieve any elements Text 310. Using getPageSource( ) method 311. Using getTitle( ) method for retrieving the Title of the page 312. Using getAttribute("value") method for retrieving text from the text fields 313. Using isDisplayed( ) to verify whether an element is available 314. Using FirefoxDriver for running Selenium WebDriver Automation Tests on Firefox Browser 315. Using ChromeDriver for Running our Tests on Chrome Browser 316. Using InternetExplorerDriver for Running our Tests on Internet Explorer Browser 317. View the source code generated by Selenium IDE in Selenium WebDriver format 318. Renaming the Projects and its items using Eclipse IDE 'Refactor' option 319. Refactoring the Selenium Automation Code 320. Identifying few sample real time tests for implementing the Refactoring concept 321. Non-Refactored Selenium Automation code for the tests identified in previous post 322. Only one test should be written inside a single test method 323. Using @BeforeClass and @AfterClass JUnit Annotations 324. Refactoring the Selenium Automation code to make it readable 325. Upgrading Selenium WebDriver 326. HTML BASICS 327. Introduction to XPath 328. Understanding the hierarchy of HTML Source 329. Parse the HTML Source using its hierarchy and find XPath path 330. Different types of Nodes in HTML 331. Locate the Element Nodes using Relative XPath 332. XPath Functions 333. last( ) - XPath Function 334. position( ) - XPath function 335. contains( ) - XPath function 336. starts-with( ) XPath Function 337. Other XPath Functions 338. XPath Operators 339. Wild Cards usage in XPath 340. Using node( ) wild card in XPath Statements 341. Using * wild card in XPath Statements 342. Using | to combine XPath Statements 343. XPath Optimization 344. XPath Optimization Strategy One - Use the id attribute if available for the element but not used in XPath Statement 345. XPath Optimization Strategy Two - Use the combination of attributes to make the XPath more specific 346. XPath Optimization Strategy Three - If there is really nothing to distinguish find the first unique element from its siblings and add the index value to it 347. XPath Optimization Strategy Four - Use Relative XPath Statements instead of Absolute XPath Statements 348. Practice XPath 349. Easy and Regular way of finding XPath Statements for Elements 350. Typing the Text into Text box by Locating the Text Box field with XPath Statement 351. Using isSelected( ) predefined method to get the status of the radio buttons and check box options 352. Selecting values from the Drop down list by locating the Drop down field using XPath Statement 353. Clicking the Link by locating it using XPath Statement 354. Clicking the Button by locating it using XPath statement 355. Introduction to CSS selectors 356. html CSS Selector for locating the whole web page 357. body CSS Selector for locating the body of the web page 358. Absolute CSS Selector path 359. Relative CSS Selector path 360. Using # to select an element with a specified id 361. Using [attribute='value'] to select an element containing the specified attribute 362. Using dot in CSS path to select an element with a specified class 363. Using [attribute] to select all the element containing the specified attribute 364. Locating first child, last child and nth child with CSS path 365. Locating different elements using a single CSS path 366. Using * wild card in CSS selector 367. Using ^= , $= and *= in CSS selector 368. Using Boolean Operators in CSS selector 369. CSS selector Optimization 370. CSS selector Optimization Strategy One - Use the id attribute if available for the element but not used 371. CSS selector Optimization Strategy Two - Use the combination of attributes to make the CSS selector statement more specific 372. CSS selector Optimization Strategy Three - Use Relative CSS Statements instead of Absolute CSS Statements 373. Practice CSS Path 374. Easy and Regular way of finding CSS Path for Elements 375. Typing the Text into Text box by Locating the Text Box field using CSS Path Statement 376. Using isSelected( ) predefined method to get the status of the radio buttons and check box options 377. Selecting values from the Drop down list by locating the Drop down field using CSS Path Statement 378. Clicking a link by locating it using CSS Path statement 379. Clicking the Button by locating it using CSS Path statement 380. Using sendKeys( ) command for entering text into a text box field 381. Using sendKeys( ) command for entering text into a Password field 382. Using sendKeys( ) command for entering single line text into a Text Area field 383. Using sendKeys( ) command for entering multiple lines of text into a Text Area field 384. Using clear( ) command to clear a text box field 385. Using clear( ) command to clear a Text Area field 386. Difference between close( ) and quit( ) Selenium WebDriver commands 387. Launching more than one Browser windows 388. Understanding how close( ) and quit( ) commands work when more than one window is opened 389. Understanding how close( ) and quit( ) commands work when only one window is opened 390. Try this if close( ) WebDriver command is not closing the Browser window 391. Using click( ) WebDriver command for selecting a check box option 392. Using click( ) command for deselecting a check box option 393. Using isSelected( ) method to get the status of the check box option 394. Using click( ) command to select a radio button 395. Using isSelected( ) method to get the status of the radio button 396. Using isEnabled( ) to find out whether the button is enabled 397. Using isEnabled( ) to find out whether the text box field is in enabled state or disabled state 398. Using sendKeys( ) command to select a list item from the drop down field 399. Using deselectAll( ) command to deselect any already selected list options in the multiple-selection Box 400. Using selectByVisibleText( ) command to select more than one list options from the Multi Select Box field 401. Using deselectByVisibleText( ) command to deselect any list option from the Multi Select Box field 402. Using selectByIndex( ) command to select any list option using its Index value from the Multi Select Box field 403. Using deselectByIndex( ) command to deselect any list option using its Index value from the Multi Select Box field 404. Using selectByValue( ) command to select the list option from the Multi Select Box field using the specified value 405. Using deselectByValue( ) command to deselect the list option from the Multi Select Box field using its value 406. Using selectByVisibleText( ) command with Drop Down Field 407. Using selectByIndex( ) command with Drop Down field 408. Using selectByValue( ) command with Drop Down field 409. Using navigate( ).to( ) command to open the specified URL 410. Using navigate( ).back( ) command to move backward in our browser 411. Using navigate( ).forward( ) command to move forward in our browser 412. Using sendKeys( ) command to browser a file 413. Using click( ) for clicking a button 414. Using click( ) for clicking a link 415. Using getAttribute("value") with a text box field 416. Using getAttribute("value") method with Password field 417. Using getAttribute("value") method with Text Area field 418. Using getAttribute("value") method with drop down field 419. Using getFirstSelectedOption( ) with drop down field to retrieve the label text of the list option that is currently selected 420. Using getFirstSelectedOption( ) with Multi-Selection Box field to retrieve the label text of the option that is selected first in the field 421. Using isMultiple( ) with a drop down fiel 422. Using isMultiple( ) with Multi-Selection Box field 423. Using getAllSelectedOptions( ) to get all the selected options in Multi-Selection Box field 424. Using getOptions( ) to get all the options available in Drop Down field 425. Using getOptions( ) to get all the options available in Multi-Selection Box field 426. Entering an integer variables value into a text box field using sendKeys( ) command 427. Using size( ) to retrieve the count of list options available in the drop down field 428. Using size( ) to retrieve the count of list options available in the Multi-Selection Box field 429. Locating elements using By.tagName( ) 430. Using findElements( ) 431. Using getTitle( ) to retrieve the title of the page 432. Using getText( ) to retrieve the elements text 433. Get XPath Count in Selenium WebDriver    Selenium WebDriver - 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Advanced Selenium
WebDriver Element Locator Firefox add-on  Reading Tool Tip Text using Selenium WebDriver Different types of Selenium WebDriver Exceptions NoSuchElementException WebDriver Exception ElementNotVisibleException WebDriver Exception NoSuchFrameException  WebDriver Exception NoAlertPresentException WebDriver Exception NoSuchWindowException WebDriver Exception SessionNotFoundException WebDriver Exception  StaleElementReferenceException WebDriver Exception Handling lightbox using Selenium WebDriver Running Selenium WebDriver Automation scripts on Opera Browser Selenium 3 - Executing automation scripts on Firefox browser using Mozilla GeckoDriver Using HtmlUnitDriver for executing Selenium Automation scripts on a headless browser PhantomJS - Executing Selenium Automation scripts on a headless browser using PhantomJS Different Unit Testing Frameworks supported by Selenium Safari Browser - Execution Selenium Automation scripts on a Safari Browser History of Selenium Executing Selenium 2 Automation scripts on Firefox Browser Executing Selenium 2 Automation Scripts on Chrome Browser Selenium 3 - Executing Selenium 3 Automation Scripts on Chrome browser Xpath Expressions versus CSS Selectors Selenium IDE - Record and Playback tool of Selenium Beginners friendly tutorial for Selenium Selenium RC - The outdated legend of Selenium Prerequisites required for learning Selenium Selenium WebDriver - The latest, popular and more powerful API of Selenium SeleniumHQ - The official website of Selenium Selenium is a free and open source functional test automation tool Selenium Training Videos with Lifetime access at Rs 999 Selenium Grid - A concept for simultaneously executing tests on multiple machines and multiple browsers Executing Selenium 2 Automation scripts on Internet Explorer 11 Browser Selenium 3 - Execution Selenium 3 automation scripts on Internet Explorer 11 Browser Executing Selenium 2 automation scripts on different browsers XPath Helper plugin - Using this plugin in Selenium for locating the GUI elements in Chrome browser Relative XPath Helper - Using this plugin in Selenium for generating relative XPath locators in Chrome browser IntelliJ Idea - An another IDE for developing and executing the Selenium code Selenium 3 and Edge Browser - Executing Selenium 3 Automation scripts on Microsoft Edge Browser Validating XPath Expressions and CSS Selectors Locators in Internet Explorer browser using MRI Manual Testing Concepts Selenium Interview Questions Best Website to practice Selenium Programming languages supported by Selenium Installing TestNG in Eclipse IDE for Selenium Configuring TestNG in Selenium Java Projects Using Third Party APIs in Selenium Automation     Advanced Selenium - The complete Reference     Still not satisfied with Advanced Selenium, go through the other posts of Advanced Selenium from the below page: Miscellaneous, Interesting and Knowledgeable Selenium Tutorials Posts
Selenium IDE Continued
Selenese Commands - List of Selenium IDE commands 'open' command in Selenium IDE - Opens Application URL in Firefox Browser Using 'click' command in Selenium IDE for clicking an hyperlink Using 'click' command in Selenium IDE for clicking a button Using 'click' command in Selenium IDE for selecting a radio option Using 'click' command in Selenium IDE for selecting a checkbox option Using 'type' command in Selenium IDE for typing text into a text area field Using 'type' command in Selenium IDE for typing text into a text box field Using 'refresh' command in Selenium IDE for refreshing the page 'highlight' command in Selenium IDE for highlighting elements Using 'pause' command in Selenium IDE for halting the execution for a specified time 'select' command in Selenium IDE for selecting an option in a drop-down field     Selenium IDE - The complete Reference     Still not satisfied with Selenium IDE, go through the other posts of Selenium IDE from the below page: Selenium IDE Tutorial - The complete Reference