Java Essentials for a good Selenium Test automation developer ?

Posted by Manoj on October 29, 2012 · 17 Comments 

How Much Java you need to learn for a good Selenium Scripting ?



As far as Selenium is concerned we have our SeleniumHQ Site with frequently updated documentation we can go through that to get the selenium concepts much strong also there are many blogs on selenium wherein you can get to learn from the basics even this blog is one among that, when considering the Language based client drivers if you use Java then here are some Java topics that you need to know for a better understanding and good selenium scripting.

OOP’s concept – Class, Objects Polymorphism, Inheritance and Encapsulation

Java Programming essentials- Object Instances, method overloading/overriding concepts and packages

Control Statements – While, do-While, Switch, If statements – This will help us in writing the scripts for a multiple scenario statements and decision making scenarios.

Looping statements – This will help us in scenarios like, iterating through a large table to find a record that you want and Running the same test for multiple number of times.

Arrays Concepts – This will help us in having some set of datas of same type in a static way.

Threads and MultiThreading Concepts – This will help us in making run our scripts in different threads that will help us in achieving better performance.

Java Collections Framework – ArrayLists and HashMaps – This will help us in maitaining a collection of data’s. Particularly useful for scenarios where you need to compare the data from Web app UI with the DB. [OR] From UI to another UI

File Streams – This will be helpful in externalization of data through CSV, Excel or Java Properties file.

The above mentioned topics in java is will make you a pretty good selenium coder :). I will try to cover all these concepts with some real time examples. Until then please go through the Java conepts, there are many java tutorials and I find this to be a good one <a href="http://www.java-made-easy.com/java-collections.html&quot;


Dont forget – “Head First java” is a Wonderful book to learn Java with a fun.

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