Welcome back In the previous article, you learned Selenium’s locator menu and a simple order of preference: unique id first, then a clear CSS selector when id is missing, then XPath when relationships demand it. This lesson zooms into CSS. You will learn the selector patterns you will reuse on almost every real page: id, […]
CSS Selectors in Selenium Java Read More »
Welcome back In the previous article, you inspected real HTML in Chrome DevTools. You learned to read tags and attributes, check whether an id is unique, and connect one inspected field to driver.findElement(By.id(…)). That skill answers what the page exposes. This lesson answers the next question: which Selenium locator should you use once you see
Selenium Locators: Choosing ID, Name, CSS, XPath, and Link Text Read More »
Welcome back In the previous article, you learned browser-level commands: open a URL, read the title, move through history, resize the window, and work with tabs. Those commands talk to the browser as a whole. They never need a locator, because they are not looking for one field or button. Almost every real test still
Finding and Inspecting Elements in the Browser Read More »
Welcome back In the previous article, you built a local lab and ran one TestNG test. Chrome opened, TestKru loaded, an assertion passed, and quit() closed the browser. That test worked, but some of it may still feel unclear. Which line started the browser? Which object typed the text? Why did the browser close at
WebDriver, WebElement, and the Test Lifecycle Read More »
Install Java, IntelliJ, and Maven, add Selenium 4 and TestNG, then run your first Chrome WebDriver test on TestKru.
Set Up Java, IntelliJ, Maven, and Your First Selenium Java Test Read More »
Introduction Imagine a robot sitting in front of your computer. You tell it: The robot performs those actions exactly as instructed, again and again, without becoming tired or making a careless click. Selenium is that robot for web browsers. Selenium is a free, open-source toolset used to automate web browsers. It is most often used
Welcome back In the previous article, you learned that WebDriver owns the browser session and WebElement is a handle to one control on the page. You also picked up a clean lifecycle: setup, act, assert, teardown. That test only did one thing: it opened a page and typed into a field. Most real tests do
Browser, Navigation, Window, and Tab Commands Read More »
Welcome to the world of Test Automation! If you are reading this, you are likely standing at the edge of manual testing, looking to leap into automation. Writing your first script is a rite of passage. It changes how you view software quality – shifting from repetitive manual clicking to building intelligent “robots” that do
Run Your First Selenium Script in Java Read More »
Welcome back In the previous article, you learned what Selenium is and what it can automate. This lesson maps the toolkit you will meet in docs, jobs, and interviews. Think of that first article as meeting a car. This article is learning the key parts: steering, a recorder, a multi-lane highway, and the helper that
Selenium Ecosystem: WebDriver, Grid, IDE, and Selenium Manager Read More »
If you’ve worked with Playwright, you already know it’s one of the most powerful modern automation tools for browser testing. Developed by Microsoft, Playwright supports cross-browser automation for Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit, and it’s gaining huge traction for end-to-end web testing. While Playwright shines with speed, reliability, and cross-browser support, many Java developers quickly notice
How to Run Playwright Java Tests in Parallel? Read More »