In this session, we will familiarize ourselves with the core features of the WebDriver API.

• Selenium WebDriver Architecture
• Open different browsers
• Finding solid factors for elements
• Interacting with elements
• Taking screenshots
• Waits

In the second half, we will be going into how to get the most out of your testing framework.

This part of the session will give you all you need to start creating some automated tests for your business, exercising functionality in the browser that matters to your business. We will then explore some popular patterns used in writing maintainable browser automation, such as the driver factory and the Page Object pattern. On top of this, we will also explore approaches for executing these tests, running them in parallel and exploring how you could run them on a Continuous Integration server, or in the cloud.

Topics include:

• Test Runners
• Data Driven
• Useful Test Reports
• Reusing Components
• Parallelizing Tests
• Design patterns for Automation
• Common Practices for
  • Framework design / approach
  • Test Data Management
  • Assertions
  • Running via CI
• Anti-patterns