1

Review of the foundations of automated testing

• Objectives and benefits.
• Manual versus automated testing.
• Role of Selenium in a testing architecture.
• Benefits and risks of Selenium Webdriver.
• Success factors.
• The Selenium family.

2

Automated tests with Selenium Webdriver

• HTML and XML approach.
• Use CSS selectors to locate elements of the HTML document: attributes, form elements, etc.
• Use XPATH to find certain elements on the page.

3

Using Selenium Webdriver

• Using appropriate logging and reporting mechanisms.
• URL navigation.
• Changing contexts and drivers.
• Capturing pages and screens.
• Localizing the GUI (Graphical User Interface) with different strategies.
• Getting GUI reports.
• Interacting with GUIs.

4

Writing maintainable scripts

• Understand what factors affect maintainability.
• Using appropriate expectation mechanisms.
• Analyzing the GUIs being tested and performing abstractions.
• Analyzing test scripts.
• Setting up a keyword policy to structure the scripts.

5

Official A4Q Selenium Foundation Examination

• Taking a mock exam.
• Commented correction of the mock exam.
• Exam set up by a GASQ auditor.
• Taking the official A4Q® Selenium Foundation exam.