Selenium Java : Beginner to Advanced [Live Project]

Selenium supports Windows, Linux, and Mac OS, as demonstrated on the official Selenium downloads page, confirming cross-OS test automation capabilities.

Selenium supports many languages, with Java, Python, and C sharp at the top, followed by JavaScript and Ruby; explore language bindings on the official site and see a Java demo.

Explore Selenium as a set of tools, focusing on WebDriver and Grid, while understanding why RC is deprecated and IDE suits non-technical users.

Explore the evolution of Selenium from version 1 through 4, and learn how to verify the latest major version on the official selenium.dev downloads page, using Java as an example.

Explore software testing basics, what testing and software mean, why testing matters, and how automation supports testing before you learn selenium.

Understand testing as more than basic checks by end users, illustrated with a tv example, and learn how testers perform extensive validation before a product's market release.

Testers identify defects and report them to developers. Developers fix the defects, and testers recheck to close them, improving software quality.

Avoid skipping software testing to prevent releasing buggy software into the market, which drains sales, causes revenue loss, damages reputation, and risks lives in applications like robotic surgery.

Software testers ideate and create test cases, then execute them on web applications to verify functionality. They report defects to developers, recheck fixes, and improve software quality for Selenium automation.

Learn what HTML stands for—hypertext markup language—and how it builds web pages. See how browsers render HTML code to display websites composed of related pages.

Learn to practice HTML basics for Selenium automation using Notepad++ as the recommended editor, including how to download, install, and set up Notepad++ on Windows for hands-on HTML practice.

Learn to save html files with a .html extension using notepad++, write a basic html structure (head and body), and view the file in a browser such as Chrome.

Create and compare HTML headings from h1 to h6, demonstrate their sizes, and preview results in a browser after placing headings in the body.

Learn to add line breaks in HTML with the br tag or br forward slash syntax, and understand browser rendering and why HTML ignores new lines.

Learn how to add horizontal rulers in HTML with the HR tag or its self-closing form, and see practical demonstrations of inserting lines between content.

Create text, password, button, radio, and checkbox fields using a single HTML input tag, including labels, placeholders, grouping radio buttons by name, and default selections with the checked attribute.

Learn to create ordered and unordered lists in HTML using OL, UL, and LI tags, with practical examples showing weekday ordering and color item lists.

Learn how cascading style sheets style web pages, distinguish HTML structure from CSS styling, and apply styles using inline, internal, and external methods with properties like color, background-color, and text-align.

Explore the id attribute in HTML to uniquely identify web elements and learn how it supports locators in Selenium Java from beginner to advanced.

Explore the major locator types in selenium, including id, name, class name, link text, css selector, and xpath, and learn how each helps locate web elements.

Demonstrate using the name locator in Selenium to locate a text box on a sample Blogspot page and type a name, when no id is present.

Demonstrates using the class name locator in Selenium to find a dropdown button without an id or name, click it, and verify the result by the displayed options.

Master the hierarchy of HTML source code to craft XPath expressions and CSS selectors on the fly, understanding root HTML, head, body, title, and p tag relations.

Learn the two types of XPath expressions in Selenium: absolute and relative, their differences, usage as locators, and why relative XPath is preferred in real projects.

Demonstrates why absolute XPath expressions are unreliable for selenium automation due to frequent UI changes, and introduces reliable alternatives using relative XPath in upcoming sessions.

Solve an assignment using Selenium Java by locating all anchor tag elements on a web page and extracting the first, last, and fifth hyperlinks with relative xpath expressions.

Explore relative XPath expressions with wildcards, using hashtag and node wildcards to represent any tag or attribute, including any value, through practical absolute XPath examples and demos.

Master relative XPath expressions to locate tables and their contents, including headers, rows, and data cells, using techniques like grandparent-to-grandchild jumps, wildcard, and pipe operators.

Solve four relative xpath challenges on the sample application table, locating the third row, second column data, the second heading, and all first-column names, with guidance from the previous session.

Explore XPath functions to enhance locating UI elements in Selenium automation, using relative XPath expressions with text, contains, starts with, position, last, normalized space, not, and local name functions.

Learn to use the text() function in XPath to locate UI elements in selenium automation, with practical challenges demonstrating relative XPath, button, dropdown, and heading selection.

Learn how to use the contains function in XPath to locate elements by partial text or partial attribute values, and compare it with the text function and contents approach.

Explore how the starts-with() XPath function locates elements using a beginning substring, compare it with contains(), and learn its use with text and attribute values in Selenium tests.

Practice using the last XPath function to complete a four-challenge assignment on omaio.blogspot.com, locating the last, last but one, last but two, and middle items in six-item list with XPath.

Master the not() XPath function to locate elements that do not match a condition, with practical demos on IDs, text content, checkbox states, and disabled fields in Selenium Java.

Learn to locate svg icons with the local-name() function in XPath, create selenium-friendly selectors for svg, and target svg children like path with contains(@class,'YouTube').

Explore why XPath axes make XPath expressions the most powerful locator in Selenium, especially when id, name, class, link text, and CSS selectors fail, and preview future axis types.

Learn the eight most-used XPath axes for locating UI elements on web pages, understand that thirteen axes exist, and anticipate practical demonstrations in upcoming sessions.

Learn to locate a child element via child XPath access, using the parent's XPath and the child:: syntax with practical demonstrations.

Demonstrates practical use of the parent axis in XPath, teaching how to locate a tag's immediate parent with the parent:: syntax, with browser-based examples from p, body, head, and HTML.

Learn to use preceding XPath access in XPath expressions with hands-on demonstrations, locating body, head, title, and paragraph elements on a sample page, and understand when it works.

Tackle an XPath assignment by locating a text area label on a sample app using nearby element and preceding-sibling axes, and optimize to a single expression.

Understand why CSS selectors have the highest priority among locators over XPath expressions in Selenium, and that CSS selectors are faster than XPath expressions.

Explore absolute css selectors and compare them with absolute xpath expressions through hands-on DevTools practice, highlighting syntax differences and how full-path selectors relate to relative selectors.

Demonstrates CSS selectors for grandparent to grandchild navigation using space instead of the greater-than symbol. Solves two challenges: navigating from HTML to title and from HTML to P tags.

Solve a CSS selectors challenge using the last-child pseudo-class to locate the final item in an ordered list on a sample page.

Learn to use the starts with symbol in CSS selectors to match the initial constant part of an element's attribute value, creating robust selectors that cope with changing endings.

Learn how to use the ends with symbol ($) in CSS selectors to locate elements by a constant ending part of an attribute value, ensuring selectors survive attribute changes.

Learn to use the hashtag symbol as a universal selector in CSS selectors to locate all page elements, with practical demos of ID-based selection and body-level scopes.

Learn how to use :not() in CSS selectors to locate elements that do not meet a condition, using an input tag with a name attribute (user ID) as an example.

Master the plus symbol in CSS selectors to locate the immediate following element, with practical Selenium Java demonstrations using paragraphs, radio buttons, and form elements.

Define Java as a programming language and highlight its place among languages, noting that for Selenium automation only core Java is needed, not advanced Java.

Learn that in Java, execution starts from the main method, and discover the main method syntax and ways to auto-generate it in Eclipse.

Learn why every executable statement in Java belongs inside a method, with examples using the main method to avoid errors and common beginner mistakes.

Review how Java code must be enclosed in a class, start from the main method, and end with a semicolon; public, static, void, and String will be explained later.

Explore common Java compiler errors, including missing semicolons, mismatched braces, and case-sensitive keywords, and learn how the compiler flags these issues before you run code.

Write a Java program using a for loop to sum odd numbers from 1 to 10 and print the result, which is 25.

Learn to implement separate parameterized methods for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing two numbers in Java, and compare your solution with a provided demo.

Write a Java program to print all elements of a single-dimensional array, using either normal or shortcut initialization, and verify results with a for-each loop.

Explore how to intake different input types in Java with the Scanner class, including nextInt, nextDouble, next, nextLine, and nextBoolean.

Explore the difference between scanner's next() and nextLine() methods in Java. Learn how next() reads only up to a space, while nextLine() captures the full line input.

Learn to implement method overloading in Java by creating a single class with three overloaded area methods that compute the circle, square, and rectangle areas and print the results.

Explore how Selenium enables web application test automation, comparing manual and automation testing, and using Selenium WebDriver and Selenium Grid across multiple browsers and languages.

Learn to use Selenium WebDriver to run scripts on different browsers through practical exercises in this live project course.

Explore essential Selenium WebDriver getting started commands in this part 2 session, building practical skills for automating web tests in a beginner to advanced live project course.

Learn essential Selenium WebDriver commands to get started in part 3 of the getting started commands series within the Selenium Java beginner to advanced live project.

Explore Selenium WebDriver basics with getting started commands in part 5 of the beginner to advanced live project, enabling you to launch a browser, navigate pages, and perform actions.

Master how to use findElements to locate multiple elements, handle StaleElementReferenceException, and retrieve element tagName() in Selenium Java.

Master alert handling in Selenium with Java by switching to alerts and choosing to accept or dismiss them.

Learn to simulate mouse actions in Selenium using Java, from basic clicks to advanced interactions, within a hands-on live project.

Master handling keyboard actions in Selenium Java with a practical live project. Apply keystroke simulations, shortcuts, and advanced interactions to real-world automation tasks.

Learn how to execute JavaScript code using Selenium WebDriver to run scripts on web pages and enhance test automation.

Master handling calendars in Selenium using Java with practical, test-focused techniques from a live project workflow. Build robust tests that interact with date pickers and calendar widgets across scenarios.

Learn how to handle tables using Selenium with Java in a beginner to advanced live project, part 1.

Learn to handle static tables in Selenium by printing the full table with headings and data, using XPath expressions to count rows and columns and build dynamic XPath selectors.

Master handling dynamic tables using Selenium in Java, building practical skills from beginner to advanced level within a live project context.

Discover how the Apache POI API serves as a Java library to read, write, and manipulate Excel files, enabling test automation to read data in Selenium projects.

Learn to format Excel cells with Apache POI in Java, applying background colors and borders using cell styles, foreground colors, fill patterns, and proper Maven configuration.