2.1: Test Planning in Selenium Test Process

Select Test Cases for Automated Testing, Analyze the AUT with Selenium, Select Tools and Other supported Software and Configure Selenium Test Environment.
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Test Planning Phase in Selenium Test Process

Get Environment (UI Design and Database) details from Development

Analyze the AUT (Application Under Test) in teerms of Object identification/Element Identification

Selenium IDE: Use Record & Playback some scenarios and analyze

Selenium WebDriver:
Mozilla Firefox - Using built-in feature "Page Inspector"
Google Chrome - Using built-in Developer tools (F12)
MS Edge - Using built-in Developer tools (F12)

Select Test Cases for Automation

Test cases that can be executed on initial build and every modified build (Smoke, Sanity)

Tests that can be executed on every modified build (Re & Regression Tests)

Tests that can be executed using multiple sets of test data (Data driven tests)

Select selenium tool/s and other software for automated testing (Eclipse IDE, Java, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins etc)

Selenium Test Environment Setup

1. Download Eclipse IDE and Extract - Editor, Syntax guidance, context help, auto compilation ....

2. Download Java (JDK) software and install in your computer

3. Set environment java variable path in the OS Environment

4. Download Selenium WebDriver Java language binding from www.seleniumhq.org and add WebDriver jar files to java project in eclipse ide

5. Download & install TestNG testing framework from eclipse IDE

Download browser driver/s and instantiate in Selenium test cases