Introduction to Selenium Training Course

This introductory course is designed to familiarize testing professionals with the basics of testing web applications using Selenium. Testers can build, enhance, and maintain scripts using both the Selenium IDE and the Selenium 2 WebDriver.

The target audience is software testers who are seeking to automate the testing of web applications using Selenium. These testers maybe new to test automation and may also include quality assurance practitioners, managers, or team leaders who are responsible for interacting with testers or who need to ensure that the tools are being implemented fully and appropriately.

• Describe the function and purpose of Selenium
• Understand the benefits and proper approach to test automation
• Record automated test cases
• Play back automated test cases
• Apply and use different verification techniques
• View and analyze results
• Configure and use the Selenium RC (Remote Control)
• Create and work with test suites
• Schedule automatic test runs
• Utilize differnt Selenium script formats
• Modify scripts to extend the capability to test the application
• Configure Selenium with Eclipse and the Selenium 2 WebDriver
• Understand and use RTTS helper files
• Convert selenium code to work with the Selenium 2 WebDriver
• Configure Custom Log Files
• Create a custom object map
• Create resuable modules to reduce script maintenance
• Use tools to help identify XPath

• Purpose of Selenium
• Selenium IDE

• Recording and Playbacking Test Cases
• Test Case Verification
• Working with Test Suites
• Test Case HTML Reports

• Configuration with Eclipse
• Setting up Helper Files
• Setting up Templates

• Setting Up Test Scripts in Eclipse
• Locating Web Elements
• Conversion of Verification Statements
• Creating Custom Log Files
• Creating Test Reports

• Useful WebElement Methods
• Target Object Map Creation
• Test Modularization