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5 Courses to Learn Selenium WebDriver for Automation Testing in Java

The days of manual testing are limited as more and more companies are shifting towards automation testing. This means all manual testing QAs needs to learn new test automation skills through Selenium, Cucumber, JUnit, and TestNG to give their career a boost. If you are manual testers or non-programming testers interested in learning test automation, or a freshers/graduates who want to kick-start their career in automating testing then you have come to the right place. In this article, I am going to share some of the best courses to learn Selenium Webdriver with Java and other automation testing technology like JUnit, Cucumber, and more.

Today's software development world uses TDD (Test-Driven Development) and BDD (Business-Driven Development) practices and requires continuous integration and continuous deployment using Jenkins and Maven.

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13 Reasons Why Selenium WebDriver Should Be Your Choice for Automation Testing

Developed in 2004 by Thoughtworks for internal usage, Selenium is a widely used tool for automated testing of web applications. Initially, Selenium IDE (Integrated Development Environment) was being used by multiple organizations and testers worldwide and saved a lot of time and effort by the benefits of automation testing with Selenium. The major downside of automation testing with Selenium IDE was that it would only work with Firefox. To resolve the issue, Selenium RC(Remote Control) was used, which enabled Selenium to support automated cross-browser testing.

But currently, websites are becoming more robust with multiple features. Also, nowadays, with the majority of the organization making a mobile-friendly website, testers have to keep in mind that a website should work properly not only in desktop but also in Android as well as iOS. Selenium RC gradually lagged behind since it did not have the feature for testing browser compatibility of a website across multiple devices. To overcome all these issues, Selenium Webdriver stepped in.