Duration
2 days
Requirements
- Automated testing experience with Selenium
- Web application development experience (recommended)
- Understanding of C# (recommended)
Overview
In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to enhance an automated test suite using advanced techniques to drive Selenium.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Resolve complex web application test automation issues with Selenium
- Apply regular expressions and pattern-based verification techniques
- Handle exceptions that halt test execution
- Perform SQL calls to verify data
- Programmatically search for web objects
- Dynamically capture data from web controls
- Create a data-driven testing framework
- Distribute testing with Selenium Grid
Audience
- Software testers
- Test Managers
- Quality assurance professionals
Introduction
Preparing Visual Studio IDE for Selenium Testing
- Setting up Selenium libraries for Visual Studio
Strategies for Locating Objects
- Identifying objects in Selenium WebDriver (Name, ID, CSS Selector, XPath, etc.)
- Handling dynamic objects
Capturing and Validating Data
- Capturing and validating data from web tables, options in drop-down lists, html trees, etc.
Logging Strategies
- Using log4net to save logs
- Generating HTML logs
- Saving logs to Excel
- Attaching screenshots to logs
Reading Locaters Whose Value Changes (dynamic Html element ID, etc.)
- Using regular expressions
- Using gobbling
Optimizing the Test Code
- Refactoring custom control methods
- Reducing parameters
- Using strongly typed parameters
- Making code reusable
Data Driven Testing Using Selenium WebDriver in C#
- Reading from test data source
- ODBC source, CSV files, Excel files, DAO objects, ADO objects, etc
- Executing a sample test
Working with Databases
- Connecting to the database
- Sending queries to the database
- Processing the results
Testing with Multiple Browsers
- Running a test against multiple browsers
- Running multiple tests against multiple browsers
- Creating a test suite
Distributing Tests with Selenium Grid
- Parallel testing using C# and NUnit
- Setting up Selenium hub and nodes
- Tweaking the Selenium scripts
- Executing tests on different machines and browsers in parallel
Continuous Testing Strategies
- Integrating Selenium tests into automated build and delivery process
Troubleshooting
- When test results in Visual Studio differ from test results during automated build process
Summary and Conclusion
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.