Selenium Automation Full Course Syllabus

• Module 1: Introduction to Selenium
  • What is Selenium? History and evolution
  • Advantages and limitations of Selenium
  • Components of Selenium:
    • Selenium IDE
    • Selenium WebDriver
    • Selenium Grid
  • Automation vs Manual Testing
  • Understanding different types of testing (Functional, Regression, Smoke, etc.)
• Module 2: Setting Up Selenium Environment
  • Installing Java Development Kit (JDK)
  • Setting up Eclipse / IntelliJ IDE
  • Installing Maven for dependency management
  • Setting up Selenium WebDriver (ChromeDriver, GeckoDriver)
  • Introduction to TestNG framework for automation
• Module 3: WebDriver Basics
  • Introduction to WebDriver and browser automation
  • WebDriver architecture
  • Launching browsers and navigating to URLs
  • Browser commands: open, close, maximize, refresh, back, forward
• Module 4: Locating Web Elements
  • Understanding the DOM structure of web pages
  • Locators in Selenium:
    • ID, Name, Class Name
    • Tag Name, Link Text, Partial Link Text
    • CSS Selectors
    • XPath (absolute & relative)
  • Best practices for element locators
• Module 5: Working with Web Elements
  • Text fields, buttons, links, checkboxes, radio buttons
  • Drop-down menus (Select class)
  • Handling alerts, pop-ups, and frames
  • Mouse actions (click, double-click, right-click, hover)
  • Keyboard actions using Actions class
  • Handling dynamic elements
• Module 6: Synchronization
  • Implicit wait
  • Explicit wait
  • Fluent wait
  • When to use waits to handle dynamic web pages
• Module 7: Advanced Selenium
  • Handling multiple windows and tabs
  • Handling iframes
  • Taking screenshots of web pages
  • JavaScript Executor for advanced operations
  • Handling file uploads and downloads
• Module 8: TestNG Framework
  • Introduction to TestNG
  • TestNG annotations: @Test, @BeforeTest, @AfterTest, @BeforeSuite, etc.
  • Test priorities, grouping, and dependencies
  • Parameterization with @DataProvider and XML
  • Generating HTML and PDF reports
  • Assertions (soft vs hard)
• Module 9: Selenium Frameworks
  • Understanding automation frameworks
  • Page Object Model (POM)
  • Data-Driven Framework
  • Keyword-Driven Framework
  • Hybrid Framework
  • Best practices for maintainable scripts
• Module 10: Handling Real-Time Scenarios
  • Automating e-commerce websites
  • Handling dynamic data tables
  • Dealing with AJAX controls and wait conditions
  • Exception handling in Selenium scripts
• Practical Projects
  • Automation of login and registration forms
  • E-commerce website automation: add to cart, checkout
  • Automating a web-based email client (e.g., Gmail)
  • Cross-browser testing using Selenium Grid
  • Data-driven automation using Excel/CSV