Selenium Class 17: Selenium Installation

https://www.gcreddy.com/2014/12/selenium-online-training.html
Selenium Test Environment Setup, Choose Selenium tools and other software for automated testing. Download & Install Java, Download & Install Eclipse IDE for Java Developers, Set Java Environment Variables, Download Selenium webdriver, add selenium webdriver to java project in Eclipse IDE.

Overview of Selenium, Selenium Installation, and Write first Selenium Test case & execute.
Selenium automates browsers, That's it. Primary it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but it is not limited to just that. Boring web based administration tasks can be automated as well.

Selenium suite of tools/Selenium components
Selenium IDE
Selenium RC
Selenium WebDriver
Selenium Grid

Supported programming languages by Selenium WebDriver

Java
Python
C#
Ruby
JavaScript
Kotlin

Selenium capabilities for Automated Testing of Web applications
Locating/Recoecognizing/Idetifying Elements/Objects -
Who inspects elements - Tester/User
How Tester Inspects Elements - Using Browser developer tools
Inspect Elements and choose element locator - By user/tester
Element inspection & Locating during test execution - By Selenium
Performing Action on the Element - By Selenium
How it performs the action on Element - Using Selenium WebDriver Method/s
Using Element Locators -

Prerequisite - Selenium Test Environment

Interacting with Browser/s -user needs to provide browser driver...
Locating Elements - user need to provide element information
Performing Actions on Elements - user need to select WebDriver methods
Creating Object Repositories - POM
Writing Test Cases -
Writing Test Steps - using Element locators and WebDriver methods user can write steps
Handling data - Programming support (Variables & Data Types)
Inserting Verification points - Testing Framework Assert methods
Reporting Results - By Testing Framework
Selenium Installation
Eclipse IDE, Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, Extent Reports....
Steps:
1. Download & Install Java
2. set Java Environment variable (path)
3. Download Eclipse IDE and Extract/Install

4. Download Selenium WebDriver jar file/s from selenium.dev and add those jar file/s to Java Project in Eclipse IDE.
Eclipse IDE - pydev plugin for Python

PyCharm IDE - Directly

5. Download Browser driver/s from third-party web sites, and Instantiate browser driver in the Selenium test cases & execute/run the Test cases

Write first Selenium Test case & execute

Manual Test case:
Test Steps:
1. Launch Browser
2. Navigate to gcrShop admin interface home page ("http://gcreddy.com/project/admin/login.php")
3. Enter valid Username
4. Enter valid Password
5. Click the default (Login) Button

Input/Test Data:
Username: gcreddy
Password: Temp@2020

Expected Result/URL: http://gcreddy.com/project/admin/index.php

Actual Result: * After Test Execution

Test Result: Pass/Fail * After Test Execution

Comments: Optional