Selenium WebDriver with Java – Learning Progress

This repository documents my hands-on learning journey as I build automation testing skills for a future role as a QA Engineer intern.
I am completing the "Selenium WebDriver with Java - Basics to Advanced + Frameworks" course on Udemy to strengthen my understanding of test automation and practical Java skills.

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📅 Progress

Section 1 – Introduction

• Learned what Selenium WebDriver is and why it is used for browser automation.
• Understood the difference between manual testing and automation testing.
• Learned about different components of Selenium: WebDriver, IDE, Grid.
• Installed Google Chrome and understood why browser drivers are important.

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Section 2 – Java & Eclipse Setup

• Installed Java JDK and set up environment variables.
• Installed Eclipse IDE for coding in Java.
• Learned basic Java setup for Selenium.
• Wrote my first simple Selenium script to open a browser.

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Section 3 – Selenium Basics

• Learned about different browser drivers (ChromeDriver, GeckoDriver, etc.).
• Practiced launching browsers using Selenium WebDriver.
• Understood how to set driver paths and manage sessions.
• Ran my first automated test script in Selenium.

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Section 4 – Locators in Selenium

• Learned different ways to locate elements: ID, Name, ClassName, LinkText, XPath, CSS Selector.
• Practiced interacting with text fields, buttons, and links.
• Faced challenges with XPath syntax but overcame them by revisiting examples and re-watching parts of the video.
• Understood when to use different locators depending on the web page structure.

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Section 5 – Interacting with Web Elements

• Learned how to interact with different types of elements such as text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, and dropdowns.
• Practiced sending input, clicking buttons, and verifying element states.
• Gained experience in using different locator strategies for dynamic elements.
• Built more reliable scripts by combining multiple actions in sequence.

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Section 6 – Synchronization in Selenium

• Learned about synchronization challenges in automation testing.
• Understood the difference between implicit wait, explicit wait, and fluent wait.
• Practiced handling dynamic elements that take time to load.
• Gained confidence in writing more stable test scripts by applying the correct wait strategy.

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Section 7 – Advanced Selenium Interactions

• Explored handling of alerts, frames, and multiple windows.
• Practiced switching between tabs and working with iframes.
• Learned how to perform advanced user actions like mouse hover, drag and drop, double click, and right click using the Actions class.
• Understood how to interact with dropdowns and dynamic UI elements effectively.

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Section 8 – Handling Web Tables

• Learned how to locate and extract data from HTML tables.
• Practiced iterating through rows and columns to fetch specific values.
• Built scripts to interact with dynamic tables where data updates frequently.
• Understood real-world use cases of handling web tables in automation testing.

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🎯 Next Steps

• Begin Section 9 of the course.
• Continue strengthening automation testing skills by applying concepts in small projects.
• Start exploring how these skills contribute to building complete test automation frameworks.

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🛠 Tools & Technologies Used

• Java
• Selenium WebDriver
• Eclipse IDE