Automation Testing with Selenium & Python, Robot Framework

Explore TestNG, an automated test framework inspired by JUnit, and learn to generate test reports, track test statuses (passed, failed, skipped), run individual cases, and understand XML-driven execution with Selenium.

Install testing on Eclipse IDE via the Eclipse Marketplace, search for testing, click install, accept the trust risk, and restart Eclipse to complete the installation.

Learn to create a Maven project structure in Eclipse, including setting group id and artifact id, creating a simple project, and configuring pom.xml with Selenium and testing dependencies.

Add dependencies to a Maven project by editing pom.xml and using the Maven repository to import selenium and testing jars, enabling compilation and execution.

Learn how TestNG priority assigns numeric values to tests to control their execution order. Apply these priority values to maintain a defined sequence across test annotations.

Demonstrates a real-time Selenium test using TestNG priority to run login, logout, and setup steps within a common test case, with implicit waits and page interactions.

Learn how test dependencies enforce execution order using depends on method, linking child tests to a parent, and compare this with priorities, including skip behavior when the parent fails.

Explore TestNG dependency by reusing a login example to illustrate depends on methods, which control execution, with setup, login, logout, and skipped steps after a failure.

Learn to disable, enable, ignore, and skip a test case using enabled attributes, test annotations, and skip exceptions, and understand how skipped tests appear in reports.

Explore TestNG annotations and their before and after configurations to control test flow, setup, and teardown across tests, classes, methods, and groups.

Explore TestNG annotations with a real-time example, showing how before test, after test, before method, and after method sequence drive per-test steps and report flow.

Explore data providers and data-driven testing, showing how a single test method can run with multiple data sets by returning object arrays and applying data provider annotations.

Explore TestNG data provider examples by creating a data provider method returning an Object[][] and running a login test with multiple credentials, showing repeated executions for valid and invalid logins.

Understand the concept of assertions in testing by comparing expected and actual results. Verify whether the application's state matches expectations and how failures generate test reports.

Explore hard and soft assertions, where hard assertions stop execution and soft assertions continue, and learn methods like assert equal, not equal, true, false, null, and not null.

Learn to verify login outcomes with TestNG assertions by comparing the dashboard text using assert equals, and practice true and false asserts for boolean checks.

Explore TestNG groups to organize tests into cohorts and run selected groups with a single XML suite. Use include and exclude to selectively execute tests and improve efficiency.

Apply include and exclude concepts to group test cases in TestNG using the groups XML, learning how to configure run tags and test.xml to control execution.

Explore a real-time TestNG groups example in automation testing, adding a login test and a search test for HTML for beginners, and configuring the test engine to run selected groups.

Explore TestNG listeners to customize test execution and generate reports at each stage, enabling logging, reporting, screenshots, and failure handling across the test lifecycle.

Learn how the ITestListener interface listens to test events and how to implement on test start, on test success, on test failure, and on test skipped to generate custom reports.

Implement the ISuiteListener interface to listen to the test suite life cycle, using onStart and onFinish to handle events before the suite starts and after it ends.

Learn how the AI execution listener monitors the start and end of test execution, starting or stopping the server with on execution start and on execution finish methods.

Understand the iinvoked method listener, which runs before and after every method to manage setup and cleanup in tests. Implement it with an interface and an XML configuration.

Learn to generate HTML extent reports for test automation using the extent reports, the extent spark reporter, and the extent test classes to display pass or fail results.

Learn to create extent reports in Selenium tests with Maven dependencies, Spark reporter, and attach reporter, then generate an HTML report dashboard showing test status, info, and pass results.

Create a GitHub account and repository to host and version-control code for automation testing projects. Upload, push, and pull code to collaborate with your team on GitHub.

Learn to push and pull code with GitHub using Eclipse. Create repositories, commit changes, and push with a personal access token, then pull updates into your local project.

Explore Selenium with Python to automate cross-browser browser tasks using WebDriver. Learn easy Python integration, locators like ID, name, XPath, and how Pytest and Jenkins support CI/CD.

Install python from the official website and download the latest version, which includes pip. Check python and pip versions in the command prompt to confirm installation.

Install PyCharm on Windows, choose the free community edition, and create a QA Selenium sessions project to prepare for adding Selenium files in the next video.

Install selenium in your python project with PyCharm, configure the python interpreter, and install the selenium package; then download the Chrome driver matching your Chrome version and test with WebDriver.

Learn how selenium WebDriver uses elements and locators to interact with web pages, find element, send keys, click, and submit, with id, name, class, CSS selector, XPath, and link text.

Locate elements by ID in Selenium WebDriver to quickly and reliably access unique page elements, then send keys to input boxes like the Google search field.

Locate web elements by name in selenium WebDriver using the name attribute, especially for form inputs. Compare with id locators and use name when available, with XPath as a fallback.

Learn how to locate elements by class name in selenium web drivers, using the class attribute to target groups sharing styling while noting non-unique and dynamic class limitations.

Learn how the tag name locator in Selenium identifies and selects groups of elements, using find_elements to extract all a tags on a page and print their href values.

Learn to locate elements in Selenium WebDriver using css selectors, a precise method that uses tag names and attributes when id or name locators are unavailable.

Master locating and clicking hyperlinks with the link text locator in Selenium WebDriver. Identify a link by its exact visible text and test with a Gmail example.

Master XPath locator in Selenium WebDriver to locate elements when no id, name, or class is available, using xml path expressions, copying XPath, and exploring multiple XPath writing methods.

Automate form filling with Selenium in Python by locating name, email, website, and comment fields using name locators, sending inputs, and clicking the send button to submit.

Learn how to handle radio buttons in selenium WebDriver by locating elements, clicking to select options, and using is selected to verify the selection, with XPath and name locators.

Master handling checkboxes in Selenium by selecting multiple options, understanding default selections, and implementing reliable checkbox interactions with WebDriver code.

Learn to handle dropdowns in Selenium WebDriver with the select class, using select by visibility text, by value, and by index, including single and multiple select with deselect.

Explore how to handle alerts in Selenium, including alert, confirmation, and prompt types, by switching to the alert, using accept, dismiss, and send keys, and retrieving alert text.

Learn to navigate multiple browser windows with Selenium WebDriver by switching between windows, handling window handles, and performing actions on both Google's page and the demo site.

Master handling nested iframes in selenium web driver by switching to the first frame, then to nested frames, interacting with elements, and returning to the main document.

Learn to perform right-clicks in selenium web driver using the action chains class. Initialize actions, locate the element, and call context click followed by perform to automate context menu interactions.

Learn to perform mouseover actions in selenium WebDriver using the action chain class to reveal dropdown menus and tooltips on hover, via move to element and perform.

Master drag and drop in Selenium by switching to the frame, locating the source and destination elements, and using action chains to perform the drag and drop.

Apply implicit wait in Selenium to poll the DOM for up to a set time when locating elements, reducing no such element exceptions and ensuring login interactions complete.

Learn to apply explicit wait in Selenium with WebDriverWait and expected conditions to target a specific element, ensuring visibility or clickability before actions.

Explore the Robot Framework, an open source automation tool for acceptance testing and robotic process automation, using keyword driven, tabular test cases in Python and Selenium.

Master your first Robot Framework test by setting up PyCharm, adding Selenium and Robot Framework libraries, and organizing tests into settings, variables, test cases, and keywords.

Explore the four Robot Framework sections—settings, variables, test cases, and keywords—and learn how to import libraries, manage data with variables, and build reusable keyword-driven test scripts.

Learn robot framework locators like id, name, xpath, and css, and use a resource file to organize variables and keywords, with setup opening the browser and teardown closing it.

Discover how to use arguments in Robot Framework keywords for reusable login tests with username and password. Use get element count to count page links and log result to console.

Learn to handle dropdowns and alerts in Robot Framework by testing radio buttons, checkboxes, and dropdown selections, and by accepting or dismissing alerts with Selenium keywords.

Learn to parameterize Robot Framework tests by passing multiple arguments with a template, covering invalid usernames, passwords, and special characters, and running tests from the terminal.

Learn how Robot Framework automatically generates logs, reports, and screenshots for Selenium tests, with easy access to log.html and report.html and automatic screenshot capture on failure.