Model Online / On-Site
Duration
Modules 5 modules

Course Objective & Scope

Selenium scripts built without architectural structure or littered with hard-coded sleeps break on the first UI update and quickly become shelfware. This course teaches how to build a maintainable, modular and CI/CD-ready web test automation framework with Selenium WebDriver 4 in Java, C# or Python.

It covers the W3C WebDriver architecture, resilient CSS/XPath locator strategies for dynamic DOMs, synchronisation with Explicit and Fluent Waits, advanced browser interactions (Actions API, iframes, multi-window, Shadow DOM, file uploads), Page Object Model (POM) design, data-driven testing (JUnit/TestNG, NUnit or pytest), parallel execution on Docker / Selenium Grid 4, and Allure reporting. Participants leave with a reusable automation starter template tailored to their stack.

Who Should Attend?

  • QA and test specialists transitioning from manual web testing to automation
  • SDETs fixing flakiness and maintainability problems in existing Selenium suites
  • Test teams building cross-browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari) regression packs
  • Prerequisite: basic Java, C# or Python programming and familiarity with HTML/DOM

Key Takeaways

  • Craft resilient CSS selectors and XPath axes that survive dynamic UI attributes
  • Eliminate hard-coded sleeps by handling async UI state with Explicit and Fluent Waits
  • Structure a clean automation framework using the Page Object Model and reusable driver managers
  • Build parameterised data-driven tests with automatic failure screenshots and Allure reports
  • Run cross-browser tests in parallel on Selenium Grid 4 and Docker containers

Curriculum

Selenium WebDriver 4 Architecture and Locator Strategies
  • The W3C WebDriver protocol, Selenium Manager and automatic driver provisioning
  • ID, data-testid, CSS Selectors and advanced XPath functions (contains, starts-with, axes)
  • Selenium 4 Relative Locators and rules for avoiding brittle selectors
Synchronisation and Advanced Web Element Interactions
  • Implicit, Explicit (WebDriverWait/ExpectedConditions) and Fluent Waits compared
  • Diagnosing and fixing StaleElementReferenceException and ElementClickInterceptedException
  • Select dropdowns, Actions API (drag-drop, hover), Alerts, IFrames, Shadow DOM and multi-window handling
Page Object Model (POM) and Automation Framework Design
  • Separating test intent from page mechanics with Page and Component classes
  • Thread-safe WebDriver management, environment configuration and BasePage/BaseTest layers
  • Lifecycle hooks, tagging (smoke, regression) and assertions with TestNG / JUnit 5 / NUnit / pytest
Data-Driven Testing, API-Assisted Setup and Reporting
  • Parameterised test execution driven by JSON, CSV and external datasets
  • Seeding test state and authentication via APIs/cookies before launching the UI
  • Automatic failure screenshots, DOM snapshots and Allure Report integration
Selenium Grid 4, Docker and CI/CD Integration
  • Headless execution, WebDriver BiDi basics and spinning up Selenium Grid 4 with Docker Compose
  • Parallel test execution, retry policies and GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Jenkins integration

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