Selenium WebDriver JavaScript

Course Syllabus

Our Selenium WebDriver JavaScript training course will cover the following topics:

Introduction To JavaScript

An overview of the History & Terms, Basic Syntax, Browser Dev Tools & the Console

JavaScript In The IDE

IDEs, VS Code, Node & Npm, Setting up the workspace, executing JS, VS Code features.

First Test Case - WebDriverJS

What is Selenium? Selenium Projects, installing WebDriverJS and Browser drivers, creating our first script

Object Identification

Element locator strategies, Chrome Developer Tools and other extensions, Regular Expressions, Index, Xpath functions

Simple WebDriver Tests

Creating a simple test, execution & failures, debugging tools

Synchronisation

JavaScript Asynchronous nature, Callbacks, Promises, Async/Await, Adding Delay, Implicit versus Explicit Waits, common examples

Asserts

Node Asserts, Chai Asserts, Chai Styles, installing and using Chai

Mocha

What is Mocha? Why use Mocha, Installation, using Mocha, Mocha Options, Hooks, Mocha Timeouts, Execution options

Reporting

Mocha --report option, installing and using Mochawesome, writing to the results

Helper Libraries

Reusable code, writing, exporting & importing methods from modules, Common examples

Introducing Page Objects (POM)

Introduction to why we do it and how it reduces maintenance. Refactoring our tests to use a page object model. Developing a library of pages (POMs)

Handling Web Elements

Handling Web Tables, Drop-Down lists, executing JavaScript in the Browser, Keyboard input & more

Cross Browser Testing

Using different web browsers, Selenium Grid

Source Control

Integrating VS Code with Git & GitHub, adding our project to Source Control

Continuous Integration

Command-line execution, integration with Jenkins or Azure DevOps

Parallel Execution

Parallel execution through Mocha, or through Azure DevOps