📘 Master Selenium Python

This repository is a complete and industry-relevant learning resource for mastering Selenium with Python. It is structured to help beginners to intermediate testers and developers gain hands-on experience in automation testing using Selenium WebDriver and Python, following real-time testing scenarios and best practices.

Topics Covered

🔹 2. Selenium with Python – Fundamentals ✅ Topics:

• What is Selenium? Architecture Overview
• Installation & Environment Setup
• First Test Script in Selenium with Python
• Locators in Selenium:
• ID, Name, Class Name
• Tag Name, Link Text, Partial Link Text
• XPath (Absolute & Relative)
• CSS Selectors

🔹 3. Selenium WebDriver – Core Concepts ✅ Topics:

• Working with Web Elements:
• find_element, find_elements
• click(), send_keys(), text, get_attribute()
• Handling: Radio Buttons, Checkboxes, Dropdowns
• Alerts, Popups
• Windows and Tabs
• Frames and iFrames
• Browser Navigation: forward(), back(), refresh()
• get(), get_current_url(), get_title()
• Implicit & Explicit Waits
• JavaScript Execution with Selenium (execute_script)
• Taking Screenshots
• Working with ActionChains (Mouse Hover, Right Click, Drag & Drop)
• Working with Cookies

🔹 4. Selenium Advanced Topics ✅ Topics:

• Handling Dynamic Web Elements
• Working with Tables and Pagination
• Working with Auto-Suggestions
• Uploading & Downloading Files
• Capturing and Validating Logs
• Working with WebDriverManager (for automatic driver downloads)
• Running tests in Headless Mode
• Working with different browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari

🔹 5. Selenium Framework Architecture ✅ Topics:

• Folder structure of Automation Framework
• Page Object Model (POM) Design Pattern
• Data-Driven Testing
• Read data from Excel/CSV/JSON/XML
• Keyword-Driven Testing (basic idea)
• Hybrid Framework (POM + DDT)

🔹 6. Pytest – Testing Framework ✅ Topics:

• Introduction to Pytest
• Installing and Running Pytest
• Writing Test Cases with Pytest
• Naming Conventions and Discovery Rules
• assert Statements
• Fixtures: @pytest.fixture basics
• Fixture Scope: function, class, module, session
• Autouse Fixtures
• Parametrization of Test Cases
• Skipping Tests and Expected Failures
• @pytest.mark.skip, skipif, xfail
• Grouping Tests with Markers: @pytest.mark.smoke, @pytest.mark.regression, etc.
• Running subsets of tests using markers or keywords

🔹 7. Pytest + Selenium Integration ✅ Topics:

• Writing Selenium Tests using Pytest
• Using Fixtures to initialize and quit the WebDriver
• Using setup and teardown logic
• Parametrizing test data with Fixtures
• Handling failures and capturing screenshots
• Re-running failed tests with plugins (pytest-rerunfailures)
• Generating Reports:
  • HTML Report with pytest-html
  • Allure Report (Optional but powerful)

🔹 8. Test Automation Utilities ✅ Topics:

• Logging with Python (logging module)
• Screenshot capture on failure
• Custom Wait Conditions
• Test data generation (e.g., Faker)
• Assertions and Validation Techniques
• Emailing test reports using Python

🔹 9. Parallel Execution and Grid ✅ Topics:

• Parallel Execution with:
  • pytest-xdist
  • pytest-parallel
• Selenium Grid:
  • What is Selenium Grid?
  • Hub and Node configuration
  • Running tests on Grid (locally or remotely)

🔹 10. CI/CD and Git Integration ✅ Topics:

• Git/GitHub Basics
• Version Control of Framework
• Running Pytest in Jenkins
• Creating Jenkins pipeline for automated testing
• Using GitHub Actions for test automation
• Integrating Selenium Tests in CI/CD Pipeline

🔹 11. BDD with Selenium + Python ✅ Topics:

• Introduction to BDD
• Gherkin Syntax: Feature, Scenario, Given-When-Then
• Using behave or pytest-bdd with Selenium
• Mapping feature files to step definitions
• Generating BDD Reports