Test Automation - Yes OR No?

Test Automation is a very hot topic nowadays and selling like hot cakes. On Google or Testing groups one will find endless debate on Manual Testing V/S Automation Testing. Both have their pros and cons. Later can't replace Manual Testing but Manual Testing can replace Automation testing in some scenarios such a budget constraint.

So what's the advantage of learning Test Automation. Test Automation is an added advantage . Manual Tester can be replaced by a person who know Test Automation in some cases when it comes to firing by organizations. Recently an Organization fired more than 100 Manual Testers when they lost a project. They retained the Automation Testers  indicating they are developers.

One should learn the Test Automation and do some practice to learn the same. There are N - number of tools in market for Automation and the choice depends on the ones interest and need. Selenium is in huge demand nowadays as it have flexibility for a Automation Tester to use any of the supported Language .

So here's my 1st post on Test Automation using Selenium and I will be updating my blog with my learning. Thanks to Alex for helping me out in learning Selenium and motivation for writing down posts on my learning.

I will be using JAVA  + WEB DRIVER for my all posts related to Selenium.

Steps to make your system ready for using selenium :-

1. Download the Eclipse depending on System Architecture you have . x86 or x64 bit.

2. Download The Selenium Standalone Server from http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/

 3. Download The Selenium Client Java bindings

4. Open Eclipse software and Create (File --> Java Project)

5. Add a New Class

6. Now Add the Selenium Jar files by following below steps :-

•     Right Click on the Project that you have created
•     Click on the Properties
•     Click on the Java Build Path
•     Click on the Libraries Tab
•     Click on Add External Jars button
•     Browse the folder and select the Jar files that was downloaded in Step 2 and 3
•     Click on Save button

So now you are ready to write down the code to automate any website.

To be Continued.....