Selenium JavaScript Tutorial For Beginners

Learn to write your first Selenium WebDriver test in JavaScript, guided by the Lambda Test YouTube channel, covering IDE selection, locators, local execution, and result review.

Choose an IDE for your first selenium test in JavaScript, using Visual Studio Code as a free cross-platform option for Mac or Windows, with the option to use other IDEs.

Open vscode, create a tests directory and test dot js to write your selenium test in javascript using selenium webdriver, launch firefox, navigate to app endpoint, and add a to-do.

Learn how to use Selenium web locators in JavaScript tests by locating elements with id, using XPath, entering text, submitting with the Enter key, and closing the browser with quit.

Discover how to run your first Selenium JavaScript test using the terminal or the VS Code play button, with Code Runner installed to launch tests and open Firefox.

Write and run your Selenium JavaScript test by requiring Selenium WebDriver module, creating an async function, using Firefox to navigate, locate element by id, send return, and quit.

Explore what assertions are in JavaScript testing with Selenium WebDriver, and learn how and when to use them using the NodeJS built-in assertions and the chai library.

Learn how to use assertions in Selenium JavaScript to validate app state, verify URL changes, error messages, alerts, and to-do list contents, ensuring tests pass when conditions meet.

Learn to write assertions in Selenium JavaScript with the built-in Node.js assertion library, using require, XPath to locate elements, get text, and strict equal checks to validate to-dos.

Learn to use chai, a popular JavaScript assertion library, with selenium in node. Install chai, require it, and write should style assertions that compare text values like learn selenium.

Explore test frameworks in Selenium WebDriver with JavaScript, focusing on Mocha, how to integrate Mocha into your Selenium tests, run tests, and review key concepts.

Learn how to use the moca test framework with selenium WebDriver, explore its open-source features like parallelization, retries, and reporting, and apply describe and it blocks to organize tests.

Install mocha with npm install mocha and create a describe block and an async it test. Use a single assertion style and remove unused code, then run the test.

Learn to run your first selenium test with mocha using npm, by configuring a test directory, describe and it blocks, and a package.json script to execute tests via the terminal.

Explore parallelization in Selenium WebDriver with JavaScript, comparing it to previous test runs and highlighting its benefits. Learn to add a second test and run tests in parallel using Mocha.

Understand test parallelization in Selenium JavaScript: run multiple tests at once to speed up the suite and shorten the feedback loop, ensure independence, avoid data conflicts, and optimize system configuration.

Learn how to add test cases in a selenium javascript suite and run them in parallel with mocha by creating separate test files and distinct describe and it blocks.

Update the npm test script in the package.json with the --parallel flag to run Mocha tests in parallel, launching two Firefox instances simultaneously.

Learn how to add HTML test reports to a Selenium WebDriver project using the Mock Awesome node package, enabling viewing past and failed test results.

Learn how Mochawesome, a node package for Mocha, lets you generate prettier HTML test reports from Selenium WebDriver tests, without changing existing tests, by installing and updating the test runner.

Install mochawesome in your existing project with npm install, then run mocha in parallel, add the reporter flag for mochawesome, and require mock awesome/register to generate reports.

Run tests via npm test, use the reporter mock autumn flag for parallelization, and review the generated mocha awesome report directory with json and html outputs.

Explore how the mock awesome report splits tests and lets you expand to view the executed test code. See execution times and how multiple tests, especially successful ones, are organized.

View how a failed test is reported by adding a new test, updating the expected text, running npm test, and inspecting the mock awesome report output and directory.

Learn to customize selenium javascript test outputs by using reporter-options to set the report directory and the report file name, such as test reports and test results.

Learn to integrate Mock Awesome reports into a Selenium test suite by enabling reporters, running tests in parallel, and configuring output directories and file names for HTML and JSON reports.

Explore how to execute selenium WebDriver tests with JavaScript on lambda tests' cloud-based selenium grid in this introduction video.

Learn the key features and advantages of Lambda Test, access the portal for your username and access key, and set up browser and version capabilities to run tests.

Learn to run selenium tests on LambdaTest's cloud-based platform, selecting browsers and versions to execute tests without local drivers and avoid maintaining a locally hosted selenium grid.

Sign up for Lambda Test, sign in, obtain your username and access key from your profile, copy them, and use them in your Selenium WebDriver tests.

Use the Lambda test capability generator to define and copy Selenium JavaScript capabilities for running tests on Windows 10 Chrome, with options for Edge, Mac, and latest or beta versions.

Create and export lambda test capabilities in a dedicated file, import them into tests, and apply them in describe to run Selenium tests on lambda test.

Learn to connect tests to the lambda test selenium grid by configuring username, access key, and host, then initialize and clean up the driver with before each and after each.

Run selenium tests on Lambda test with npm test, view results on the dashboard, and name tests by it blocks to reflect their exact titles in chrome on windows 10.

Explore how to run Selenium WebDriver tests with JavaScript in headless mode on the Lambda Test platform. This introduction adds headless capability to your existing test setup.

Explore headless mode and its testing advantages, update the test capabilities to include headless support, and rerun tests to verify everything still works, then summarize the key outcomes.

Headless testing runs UI tests on a headless browser with no GUI, delivering faster, less flaky, and more robust tests, while still using traditional browsers.

Add a headless option to the browser capabilities, set headless to true, enabling headless runs on Chrome and Firefox via capabilities.js.

Run headless selenium tests on the Lambda test cloud by setting headless to true; npm test runs three tests, two on Lambda test and one local.

Enable headless mode for Selenium tests by updating capabilities in js config, with no test changes, and check Lambda Test blog and YouTube channel for JavaScript and Selenium guidance.

Explore parameterization in Selenium WebDriver with JavaScript, showing how to create a new test, add parameters, and run it on the Lambda Test platform. Review the session highlights.

Parameterization enables parameterized tests to run a single test multiple times with different data inputs, reducing duplicate code and enabling browser variation through capabilities.

Learn how to create a parameterized test in mocha with plain JavaScript, looping over browser, version, and operating system combinations to automate cross-browser testing without extra packages.

Update capabilities to set platform name, browser name, and browser version for cross-browser testing; iterate with a for each IT block and print test details.

Run a parameterized test on LambdaTest's cloud Selenium grid, observe console output, and review the dashboard to confirm three passing tests across Chrome and Firefox versions, with video enabled.