Introduction to Selenium
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What is Selenium and why is it used for automation testing?
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Different components of the Selenium Suite (Selenium IDE, WebDriver, Grid, RC)
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Selenium's advantages over other automation tools
Core Java (or other programming language used with Selenium)
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Setting up the development environment (e.g., JDK and Eclipse)
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Fundamentals of Java programming (variables, data types, operators, loops, conditional statements)
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Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts (classes, objects, inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, abstraction)
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Exception Handling
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Collections (Lists, Sets, Maps)
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Working with files (e.g., Excel, Property files)
Selenium WebDriver
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Introduction to Selenium WebDriver and its architecture
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Configuring WebDriver with Eclipse
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Cross-browser testing (Firefox, IE, Chrome)
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Locating web elements (ID, Name, ClassName, XPath, CSS Selectors)
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Interacting with web elements (buttons, text boxes, links, dropdowns, tables, etc.)
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Handling dynamic elements
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Synchronization (Implicit, Explicit Waits)
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Mouse and Keyboard Events (using the Actions Class)
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Handling alerts, frames, and multiple windows/tabs
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Taking screenshots
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File uploading and downloading (using AutoIt or Robot class)
Testing Frameworks
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Introduction to testing frameworks (TestNG, JUnit)
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Configuring and using TestNG/JUnit with Selenium
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Annotations, Data Providers, Assertions
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Creating and executing test suites
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Parallel test execution
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Generating test reports
Automation Frameworks
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Understanding different framework types (Modular, Keyword-driven, Data-driven, Hybrid)
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Implementing and building a Hybrid Framework
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Page Object Model (POM) and Page Factory
Integration with other tools
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Maven for build management
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Jenkins for continuous integration
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Git/GitHub for version control
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Cucumber for Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
Advanced topics
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Database testing
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API Testing with Selenium and Java
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Mobile testing with Appium
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Selenium Grid for parallel and cross-browser testing
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Performance Testing (sometimes mentioned, but often requires specialized tools like JMeter)
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Debugging and Troubleshooting Selenium tests