Web Test Automation Workbook #02: Web Test Automation Simplified

Three simple exercises to understand the three core technologies behind a web page: HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

This article is one of the “Web Test Automation Workbook” series (the complete training course will be on my Substack Newsletter), a set of bite-sized exercises (typically 15–20 mins). An effective and fun way to learn web test automation with Selenium WebDriver.

Goal

To understand

• the basic web terms.
• a web page’s content (HTML) and Style (CSS)
• JavaScript adds dynamic to a web page

Web Basics

Here is a simple web page in a Chrome browser window.

All terms except one shall make sense to everyone. A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is an official term for a web address.

Web Testing means …

Verify business features on a website. A test case verifies a business feature (from GUI) that involves one or more web pages.