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The Certified Selenium Tester Foundation certification is based on a practical training course aimed at test professionals who desire an understanding of how to design, implement and maintain automated solutions using Selenium WebDriver.
Upon the successful completion of the course, you will be able to create and run Selenium WebDriver tests without supervision.
You will be able to apply correctly test automation principles to build a maintainable test automation solution.
You will be able to choose and implement correct test automation tools.
You will be able to implement Selenium WebDriver scripts that execute functional web application tests and implement maintainable scripts
Who is it for?
This course is ideal for automators and those who want to learn automation using the Selenium WebDriver toolset. While this course is accessible to anyone wanting to acquire a basic, hands-on knowledge of Selenium, the main audiences are:
People with no test automation experience who are starting to automate in Selenium (or who want to get a job doing that)
People with some GUI test automation experience who are new to Selenium or starting to automate in Selenium (or who want to get a job doing that)
People with some non-GUI test automation experience who are new to Selenium and starting to automate in Selenium (or who want to get a job doing that)
Next steps/Follow on courses
You will be able to undertake additional certification at the Advanced Level (when released)
As automation plays an increasingly important role in the systems development process, employers have begun to accept the need for structure and qualification as a way of standardising things and getting a return on their investment. Senior trainer Rosie Sheldon talks you though the Selenium WebDriver Foundation Tester course.
Attendees should have general knowledge of basic programming and some knowledge of Python.
Exam
After taking the course and passing the exam, you will have an independent, internationally recognized certification as proof of expertise in the field of test automation with Selenium WebDriver.
The exam comprises of 40 multiple-choice questions. Each correct answer has a value of one point. A score of at least 65% (that is, 26 or more questions answered correctly) is required to pass the exam. The time allowed to take the exam is 60 minutes. If the candidate’s native language is not the examination language, the candidate may be allowed an extra 25% (15 minutes) time.
Course Objectives
After this certificate, candidates are expected to:
Have an understanding of Selenium automation tools
Have an understanding of the different TAS that can be implemented using Selenium tools
Have an understanding of the underlying web technologies and how they are used on Selenium
Adopt the best practices when onboarding Selenium automation projects
Understand how to maximize the return on investment for the automation projects.
Syllabus – Key points
There are six chapters with examinable content.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Test Automation – 175 minutes
Understand how automation testing can be applied to different test levels
Understand the components of gTAA and how to build a TAS
Remember industry-wide expectations from a TAS
Understand the relationship between manual and automated tests
Explain the benefits and limitations of automation testing
Understand the different test automation solutions
Chapter 2: Automation Web Technologies – 250 minutes
Understand how different web technologies co-exist together
Remember the different locators used by Selenium
Use different selenium locators to find GUI elements
Understand the structure of a DOM tree
Apply XPath expression to locate elements
Analyze a DOM tree to distinguish the most appropriate locator to use
Apply locator semantics to locate malformed locator expressions
Apply best practices to convert increase reliability of locator expression
Understand how to use a CSS selector to search for a node
Execute a CSS selector expression to search for an HTML node(s)
Good primer for anyone considering using Selenium.
Rated 5 out of 5
Claire Hall | Senior Test Analyst | Sky –
Trainer was friendly and approachable. She was clear and precise.
Rated 4 out of 5
Nathan Clayton-Barker | IT Test Professional (Corporate) | NFU Mutual –
I rated Rosie 4 stars because she was friendly, helpful and informative, also because I felt she was making the most of a difficult situation in regard to the training materials and the set-up of the learning environment she had to work with.
Overall I was disappointed with the course materials and the way in which we were required to learn. I requested to attend this course at the cost of my employer because I had a genuine interest in learning more about Selenium and because I wanted to take that knowledge back to the business. From the course description, I was given the impression that I would be attending a class that allowed me to put the training into practice i.e. we would be provided an environment/Virtual Machine/Website to execute the code we compiled to see if we got it right. Instead, the course consisted of 8 delegates virtually sitting around one computer and taking it in turns to give what we thought was the correct answer. We were given a very brief list of applications used in the course, but due to the time constraints and lack of information on configuration it wasn’t possible to replicate an environment on my own computer in time.
The delegate slides were dated as 2018, and from the multiple errors found in the slides, it soon became apparent that the slides may not have been maintained since they were created, this was confusing and distracting to my learning process, and at times made me lose confidence in what was correct or incorrect.
Aside from only having one Mock exam paper to practice with, meaning I couldn’t run through an entire mock exam at the end of the course before taking the actual exam, the one we were provided contained an error. Again this knocked my confidence in the information I obtained form the course.
Overall, in it’s current state with errors and without an actual environment to get hands on training from, I would not recommend this training provider or course in future.
Rated 5 out of 5
Gary Ng | Senior Test Analyst | Liverpool Victoria Insurance –
Course was excellent and learnt a lot – hopefully this will help me progress my carrer to bigger and better things.
Rosie was excellent – knew what she was talking about – extremely friendly and approachable (some trainers are moody)
it was a fun 3 days.
Rated 4 out of 5
Fokhrul Islam| Test Lead|AS Watson –
Good course, well structured but as its done virtually I believe there should be more hands on involved. 3 days is not enough.
Rated 5 out of 5
John Kurowski | Principal Consultant |Expleo Group –
Slides were very wordy. Would be great to have an environment to try out the exercises as we didn’t have a copy of Thonny
Rated 5 out of 5
James Ashcroft | Test Analyst |Leeds Beckett University –
Really Informative, useful course that I already have plans for applying within my role. Rosie was very patient and helpful, felt that we could ask questions freely and were frequently provided with good knowledge and insight.
Rated 4 out of 5
Dom Walter | Test Analyst |Self employed –
Rosie was very knowledgeable about the subject and very happy to answer delegates’ queries.
My only criticism of the course was that I felt we could have been introduced to Selenium earlier. Although it’s vital to learn how to identify elements by XPath etc, it seemed that we could have approached this once we’d seen Selenium itself to provide more context.
Rated 4 out of 5
Wayne John | | –
The trainer was very knowledgeable and helpful and the course was well presented.
Rated 5 out of 5
Sam Moule | Senior Test Analyst |LV –
Very informative & made a technical subject easy to understand with lots of examples to work through together.
Rated 5 out of 5
Inder Dhaliwal | Senior Test Engineer –
Successfully completed the A4Q foundation certificate training for Selenium (with Python). Thank you TSG Training for an excellent remotely delivered course:
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bob.johnson –
Brilliant course, very helpful, very useful.
Trainer obviously knows what they’re doing and is experienced
bob.johnson –
Brilliant course, very helpful, very useful.
Trainer obviously knows what they’re doing and is experienced
Campbell Forsyth | Automation Tester | Agenor Technology –
Good primer for anyone considering using Selenium.
Claire Hall | Senior Test Analyst | Sky –
Trainer was friendly and approachable. She was clear and precise.
Nathan Clayton-Barker | IT Test Professional (Corporate) | NFU Mutual –
I rated Rosie 4 stars because she was friendly, helpful and informative, also because I felt she was making the most of a difficult situation in regard to the training materials and the set-up of the learning environment she had to work with.
Overall I was disappointed with the course materials and the way in which we were required to learn. I requested to attend this course at the cost of my employer because I had a genuine interest in learning more about Selenium and because I wanted to take that knowledge back to the business. From the course description, I was given the impression that I would be attending a class that allowed me to put the training into practice i.e. we would be provided an environment/Virtual Machine/Website to execute the code we compiled to see if we got it right. Instead, the course consisted of 8 delegates virtually sitting around one computer and taking it in turns to give what we thought was the correct answer. We were given a very brief list of applications used in the course, but due to the time constraints and lack of information on configuration it wasn’t possible to replicate an environment on my own computer in time.
The delegate slides were dated as 2018, and from the multiple errors found in the slides, it soon became apparent that the slides may not have been maintained since they were created, this was confusing and distracting to my learning process, and at times made me lose confidence in what was correct or incorrect.
Aside from only having one Mock exam paper to practice with, meaning I couldn’t run through an entire mock exam at the end of the course before taking the actual exam, the one we were provided contained an error. Again this knocked my confidence in the information I obtained form the course.
Overall, in it’s current state with errors and without an actual environment to get hands on training from, I would not recommend this training provider or course in future.
Gary Ng | Senior Test Analyst | Liverpool Victoria Insurance –
Course was excellent and learnt a lot – hopefully this will help me progress my carrer to bigger and better things.
Rosie was excellent – knew what she was talking about – extremely friendly and approachable (some trainers are moody)
it was a fun 3 days.
Fokhrul Islam| Test Lead|AS Watson –
Good course, well structured but as its done virtually I believe there should be more hands on involved. 3 days is not enough.
John Kurowski | Principal Consultant |Expleo Group –
Slides were very wordy. Would be great to have an environment to try out the exercises as we didn’t have a copy of Thonny
James Ashcroft | Test Analyst |Leeds Beckett University –
Really Informative, useful course that I already have plans for applying within my role. Rosie was very patient and helpful, felt that we could ask questions freely and were frequently provided with good knowledge and insight.
Dom Walter | Test Analyst |Self employed –
Rosie was very knowledgeable about the subject and very happy to answer delegates’ queries.
My only criticism of the course was that I felt we could have been introduced to Selenium earlier. Although it’s vital to learn how to identify elements by XPath etc, it seemed that we could have approached this once we’d seen Selenium itself to provide more context.
Wayne John | | –
The trainer was very knowledgeable and helpful and the course was well presented.
Sam Moule | Senior Test Analyst |LV –
Very informative & made a technical subject easy to understand with lots of examples to work through together.
Inder Dhaliwal | Senior Test Engineer –
Successfully completed the A4Q foundation certificate training for Selenium (with Python). Thank you TSG Training for an excellent remotely delivered course: