Selenium WebDriver 4, Cucumber BDD, Java & More! [NEW: 2023]

The following topics are covered in this course. These topics have been specifically tailored to demonstrate and teach you the most important areas of automation testing. This is taught to you using a practical approach and you will see tests (that you have written) testing websites using your very own browser.

• Gain a greater understating of Selenium WebDriver 4 & Java.
• Gradually learn and understand Cucumber (BDD) from a basic level all the way to an advanced level (Latest versions of Cucumber BDD).
• Learn the latest and most effective way to develop basic to advanced Cucumber Frameworks.
• Learn how to architecturally design and develop Cucumber Frameworks the correct way taking into consideration concepts such as DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself), maintainability etc.
• Incorporate best practises when developing Cucumber Frameworks.
• What is Gherkin and how can we use it?
• Understand what exactly is a Feature File & how to create them.
• Understand the purpose of Step Definition Classes & how to create them.
• Explain the purpose of Runner Classes and explain how to optimize them using Options, Hooks & Tags.
• Explain the advantages and purpose of reports and learn how to generate Advanced Reports.
• Learn how to attach images to reports.
• Understand the purpose of the Background keyword and why it’s a good idea to use it.
• Demonstration of Scenario Outlines & Examples (which is very important).
• Explain the purpose of the Page Object Model (POM) & Page Factories.
• I will show you how to Integrate Selenium and Java into your Cucumber projects.
• I will teach you how to simulate a wide range of different test scenarios via planned automation test scripts.
• I explain how to find elements on website(s).
• I will explain the purpose and then master the ability to create Dynamic Locators.
• Learn how to stabilize your tests.
• Learn why a BasePage is so important and why it’s vital to centralize your code.
• I will explain how to create a customized Base Page including the creation of Bespoke Methods.
• Learn how to Effectively handle Element Interaction (Wait for Element to be Visible, Clickable etc).
• I’ll explain to you the purpose and limitations of Thread.sleep and teach you the correct way to wait and interact with website elements.
• I will show you how to Master Inheritance using Subpages etc.
• I will show you DriverFactory creation and why a DriverFactory is very important!
• I’ll explain the importance of Modelling Pages of a website into Separate Containers (POM: Page Object Modelling).
• We will go though the Java JDK and Apache Maven setup.
• I will demonstrate to you IntelliJ IDE so that you become very familiar with it (including how to set it up).
• I will demonstrate Maven and explain it’s purpose and why this is a wonderful tool to use.
• Explain the importance of the Maven POM File and why we use it (Including handling dependencies).
• I will explain the M2 directory.
• I will teach you how to simplify the update process (Dependencies) of your project.
• We will go through some of the most popular Maven commands.
• I will explain the Constant class (for centralisation) & learn how to create dynamic directories.
• I’ll teach you Continuous Integration using Jenkins and explain why this is very useful.
• I will also show you some very important add-ons for Jenkins.
• We will create some very visually appealing reports within Jenkins and attaching images to those reports.
• How to handle Extensible Choice Parameters (Selection Dropdown lists) via Jenkins.
• I have made sure to include course notes & code with each lecture(s) and module(s).
• We will go through Chromedriver and Geckodriver and explain its purpose.
• I will demonstrate how to use a specific Surefire plugin to our advantage.
• I will teach you the purpose TestNG execution files and why these are used.
• I will demonstrate how to effectively use TestNG Assertions.
• I will demonstrate the Config / Properties file and explain the purpose of the config reader class.
• Parallelization –  I will demonstrate how you can execute your tests in Parallel, how to increase / decrease the numbers of tests running in parallel etc.
• And much more!