Test Automation using Selenium WebDriver with Java: Step by Step Guide

One of the best IT books I've ever read. It assumes you know nothing about automated testing, and takes you carefully, step-by-step, to a level where you can do worthwhile automated testing. Furthermore, if I've had any questions then I've emailed the author and he's always come back with answers quickly. I highly recommend this book.

Nice book and a must one for anyone preparing for interviews, practicing as beginners or may be want to enhance test automation skills.

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Out of date when first used, now almost useless.

I love this book. In my job I have to develop and implement the test automation infrastructure and develop the automated tests for a new web based application. As I will be using Selenium this book is especially helpful in explaining the infrastructure configuration required. It is not heavy reading. It is very practical and easy to understand with plenty of screenshots and instructions. It is very logical and well thought out and covers the automation process from deciding what to test, through setting up the infrastructure, developing your automated tests, executing the automated tests, reporting, and maintaining the test scripts for future updates. The real life experiences are very interesting and make you think about how the product will work, its dependencies, synchronization issues, etc. It has made my life a lot easier.

I have not used this too much but a colleague of mine has. The examples look well laid out and easy to understand even for beginners.

I consider that the author don't present the fundamentals of Java. For me half of the book is for nothing. This book is from 2014 and it is covered Selenium 2, not Selenium 3.

I do really like this book, however it's quite a bit out of date now which means the examples don't always work or the notations don't always work, but the theory is still on point.

step by step explained with examples and screenshots easy wording very timely I can suggest for all beginners with Selenium and test automation

I bought this book due to the good reviews but the content is at least 4 or 5 years out of date. Many of the links and tools no longer exist so you can't follow it.

I already had significant experience with QTP/UFT and bought this to get me started with Selenium. The book is great in explaining what and why you are doing the setups and how to start with the Selenium IDE and then the more advanced approach by just doing the Java code using Selenium's WebDriver. Good screenshots and good walk throughs in installing and using the various tools and plug-ins. Within just a short time I've become very comfortable with Selenium, how it generally works and the overall approach. Great product.

A wonderful book, with step by step examples with simple instructions. A must read and a must have book for any tester looking to learn automation.

This is a good introductory book for Selenium WebDriver, and much better than some of the other books I scanned through. The code examples work as advertised, although the author doesn't implement Implicit Waits & Explicit Waits (things to deal with delays in web page elements) correctly. "Mastering Selenium WebDriver" by Mark Collin has a whole chapter devoted to why the wait approach used by "Test Automation using Selenium WebDriver" is wrong. I'd also be remiss if I didn't comment on the author's naming conventions for variables which uses some variant of Hungarian notation which isn't necessary for the Java programming language and modern IDEs. Likewise, some readers will complain about the presence of an "introduction to Java" chapter, but I'm not one of those readers since I understand who the book is aimed at. Navneesh Garg thoughtfully maintains a simple, working website that readers can use as they write Selenium WebDriver tests. The book is aimed at beginners and provides practical step-by-step instructions for configuring and working with a Java Eclipse/Ant build based environment leveraging JUnit or TestNG unit tests. Later chapters describe the rationale behind Continuous Integration testing and some of the pitfalls encountered which is also helpful for beginners. Experienced readers may roll their eyes at this kind of content, but you'd be surprised how many agencies will submit contract workers with Java & javascript experience, but little to no experience with the build chain used by their clients. The clients have little interest in documenting these steps for contingent staff and it wastes productive time for both the client and the agency temp. Experienced users can skip the sections they're not interested in and get straight to coding Selenium WebDriver tests. The book does a good job introducing the material, and by the time you've finished, you'll have a solid introduction to Selenium WebDriver if you work through the examples and resolve any problems you encounter. As a follow-up, I'd suggest reading "Mastering Selenium Web Driver" by Marc Collin and keeping a Selenium cookbook (short coding recipes) around as a reference guide. The important lesson to learn with the cookbook approach is try to things within the Selenium APIs first before you drop into the Selenium Javascript Executor or a third-party framework like Auto-It to accomplish a task.