Day 02 : 13th July

• DDF Project Overview
• Thumb rules of Automation : 
• Efficiency - Faster than human, using lesser resources
• Reusability - Make once, reuse manytimes, with little or no changes. 
• Accuracy - We have confidence on the Automation Tool/FW.
• U need to learn a lot of coding. However, very specific areas.
• Instead of topic based learning, learn coding through the need. 
• CODING 101 :
• Learn to READ CODE. Meaning.
• Make small EDITS. Customize.
• Write larger Code. 
• Repeat. 
• Coding Syntax Error  : Cannot understand your writing. 
• RunTime Errors : Didnt expect. Happened while running the code.
• JAR - Java Archived Resource (Reusbale Function Library)
• For each type of app, there could be a related JAR created by the User Community. 
• Every Java program needs a main method. Says where to start. 
• Curl Brackets define a Block of code. 
• Art of coding is to Think like a Computer, before you make it run. Run it in the mind. 

DDF1 : Get all URL’s and Titles for all courses. Validate. 

• Let us build for 3 courses. We can add the others later using a PATTERN. 
• Element Identification
• Basic Methods (for survival)
• Id, name, linktext, xpath …
• findElement : finds a single element matching the properties. 
• Need to identify those key element property attributes 
• BY class

Locator Strategy comprises the following values.

1. ID
2. Name
3. Class Name
4. Tag Name
5. Link Text
6. XPath

Absolute VS Relative xPaths.

Where to do?

What to do?

DDF2 : Execute Functional TC’s (Signin, Register etc) with different User Data/Credentials