Web Test Automation Workbook #03: Introduction to Selenium WebDriver

Run your first Selenium test steps

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-size exercises.

Table of Contents:
· Goal
· Selenium WebDriver’s syntax pattern
· Step 1. Locate the control
  ∘ Common Controls on a web page
· Selenium WebDriver’s Locators
· Step 2. Perform action on the located control
· Run Selenium Scripts in TestWise 
  ∘ Get TestWise in Playgrounds mode
  ∘ Try out automated test steps
  ∘ Knowledge Point: Comment
· FAQ

Goals

• Basic Selenium WebDriver syntax
• Three Selenium locators
• Try out the Selenium test steps
• TestWise’s debugging mode
  (a fast way to try out selenium steps)

Selenium WebDriver’s syntax pattern

Selenium WebDriver is the easiest-to-learn automation framework because its syntax follows such a simple and intuitive pattern.

Identify a text box, then type some text there.

You may be reading this article (and others in this series) on smartphones. If so, I suggest stop and find 15 minutes to sit down in front of a computer: do the following exercises hands-on. In my…