This course aims to:

give you the solid foundations and the practical knowledge to start as a Jr Automation QA specialist.

“Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.”

Variables, data types, conditional logic

• Primitive Data Types
  • Byte, Short, Int
  • Long, Float, Double
  • Boolean, Char
• Declaring and Using Variables
  • Identifiers
  • Declaring Variables and Assigning Values
  • Literals
• String
• Object
• Flow of control

Loops

• What is a Loop?
• Loop types
  • while loops
  • do … while loops
  • for loops
  • for-each loops
• Special loop operators
  • break, continue
• Nested loops

Data structures

• Array
  • Declaring and Creating Arrays
  • Accessing Array Elements
  • Iterating Over Arrays Using for and forEach
• ArrayList
• Map interface

Classes and methods

• Using Methods
  • What is a Method? Why to Use Methods?
  • Declaring and Creating Methods
  • Calling Methods
• Methods with Parameters
  • Passing Parameters
  • Returning Values
• Classes and Objects
• Declaring an object
  • Fields: Instance and Static
  • Instance and Static Methods
  • Constructors

OOP

• Fundamental Principles of OOP
• Inheritance
  • Class Hierarchies
  • Inheritance and Access modifiers
• Abstraction
  • Interfaces
  • Abstract Classes
• Encapsulation
• Polymorphism
• Cohesion and Coupling

Exceptions

• What is an Exception ?
  • Error vs. Exception
  • Hierarchy of Java Exception classes
  • Java Exception Handling Keywords
• The throws / throw Keywords
• The finally block
• Common scenarios where exceptions may occur
• Sequence of Events for throw
  • Checked Exceptions
  • Un-Checked Exceptions
  • User-defined Exceptions
• Good practices

High quality code

Naming, Formatting, Documentation

Defensive programming

Refactoring

Unit testing

SOLID principles

High Quality Code

import java.util.*;
import java.lang.*;
import java.io.*;

/* Name of the class has to be "Main" only if the class is public. */
class HighQualityCode
{
	public static void main (String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception
	{
		String[] topics =
			{"Naming, Formatting, Documentation", "Defensive programming", "Refactoring", "Unit testing", "SOLID principles"};
		
		for( int topic = 0; topic < topics.length; topic++)	{
			System.out.println( topics[topic] );    
		}
	}
}
						

Selenium IDE, Builder and WebDriver API

• Location strategy
• Selenium WebDriver
• CallWrappers
• Data Driven Testing or DataGenerator
• Selenium Grid

Test flow control

• Explicit waits
• Implicit waits
• Custom-expected conditions
• Popup and alert windows
• Frames
• Verifications and Asseritons