Locators, XPath Expressions, CSS Selectors and Locator Tools

Includes the creation of complex XPath Expressions and CSS Selectors from scratch and many more

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Last Updated: 2022-04-25 08:04:22 English Course Type: Self Learning

HTML Basics required for understanding or learning Locators
Locator concepts, Types and choosing Locators
Creating XPath Expressions from scratch on the fly
Creating CSS Selectors from scratch on the fly
FireBug and FirePath Alternatives for auto-generating the Locators

This course covers all the below topics in detail:

HTML Basics that are required for learning and understanding different types of Locators

Locator concepts

Types of Locators

Creating Complex XPath Expressions from scratch

Creating Complex CSS Selectors from scratch

FireBug and FirePath Alternative tools for Locators Auto-generation

By the end of this course you will be able to create reliable, stable and complex Locators for locating UI elements on the web pages.

This course is for the Test Automation engineers who want to create better and 'easier to maintain' locators.

Check the course contents for more details.

Basic knowledge about software usage
Desire to learn new skills

Beginners who are new to Selenium Automation
Beginners aspiring to learn different Locators
If you want to learn all the Locators to be used in Selenium Automation in detail, complete and from scratch

Section 1 : HTML 12 Lectures 01:41:41
Lecture 1 :
What is HTML? Preview
Lecture 2 :
HTML Tags Attribute Names Attribute Values Enclosed Text and HTML Elements
Lecture 3 :
Structure of HTML
Lecture 4 :
Adding Title to the HTML Web Page
Lecture 5 :
Adding Paragraphs to the HTML Web Page
Lecture 6 :
Adding Bold, Italic and Underlined text to the HTML Web Page
Lecture 7 :
Adding different sizes of headings
Lecture 8 :
Adding hyperlinks to the web page
Lecture 9 :
Adding Rulers to the Web Page
Lecture 10 :
Adding Images to the Web Page
Lecture 11 :
Adding Line Breaks to the Web Page
Lecture 12 :
Adding Table to the Web Page
Section 2 : Locators 11 Lectures 01:45:07
Lecture 1 :
What are Locators?
Lecture 2 :
Different Types of Locators
Lecture 3 :
Demonstrating ID locator
Lecture 4 :
Demonstrating Name locator
Lecture 5 :
Demonstrating Class Name locator
Lecture 6 :
Demonstrating Link Text locator
Lecture 7 :
Demonstrating CSS Selector locator
Lecture 8 :
Demonstrating XPath locator
Lecture 9 :
Demonstrating DOM locator
Lecture 10 :
Priority of Locators
Lecture 11 :
Additional details about different Locators
Section 3 : XPath Expressions 30 Lectures 08:57:15
Lecture 1 :
What is an XPath?
Lecture 2 :
Hierarchy of HTML Source Code
Lecture 3 :
Types of XPath Expressions
Lecture 4 :
Building Absolute XPath Expressions
Lecture 5 :
Advantages and Disadvantages of Absolute XPath Expressions
Lecture 6 :
Relative XPath Expressions - First Set of Examples
Lecture 7 :
Relative XPath Expressions - Second Set of Examples
Lecture 8 :
Relative XPath Expressions - Third Set of Examples
Lecture 9 :
Relative XPath Expressions - Fourth Set of Examples
Lecture 10 :
Relative XPath Expressions - Fifth Set of Examples
Lecture 11 :
Relative XPath Expressions - Sixth Set of Examples
Lecture 12 :
Relative XPath Expressions - Seventh Set of Examples
Lecture 13 :
XPath Expressions - Wild Cards
Lecture 14 :
XPath Expressions - HTML Tables
Lecture 15 :
Different XPath Functions
Lecture 16 :
text() XPath Function
Lecture 17 :
starts-with() XPath Function
Lecture 18 :
last() XPath Function
Lecture 19 :
position() XPath Function
Lecture 20 :
Different XPath AXES
Lecture 21 :
following XPath AXES
Lecture 22 :
preceding XPath AXES
Lecture 23 :
following-sibling XPath AXES
Lecture 24 :
preceding-sibling XPath AXES
Lecture 25 :
parent XPath AXES
Lecture 26 :
child XPath AXES
Lecture 27 :
ancestor XPath AXES
Lecture 28 :
descendant XPath AXES
Lecture 29 :
Advantage of Relative Xpath Expressions over Absolute XPath Expressions
Lecture 30 :
contains() XPath Function
Section 4 : CSS Selectors 17 Lectures 04:16:12
Lecture 1 :
What is a CSS Selector?
Lecture 2 :
Types of CSS Selectors
Lecture 3 :
Building Absolute CSS Selectors
Lecture 4 :
Advantages and Disadvantages of Absolute CSS Selectors
Lecture 5 :
Relative CSS Selectors - First Set of Examples
Lecture 6 :
Relative CSS Selectors - Second Set of Examples
Lecture 7 :
Relative CSS Selectors - Third Set of Examples
Lecture 8 :
First-child in CSS Selectors
Lecture 9 :
Last-child in CSS Selectors
Lecture 10 :
nth-child in CSS Selectors
Lecture 11 :
Comma and Asterisk Symbols in CSS Selectors
Lecture 12 :
Starts With, Ends With and Contains Symbols in CSS Selectors
Lecture 13 :
Using not in CSS Selectors
Lecture 14 :
Using following sibling in CSS Selectors
Lecture 15 :
Locating disabled, enabled and selected UI elements using CSS Selectors
Lecture 16 :
XPath Expressions are powerful over CSS Selectors
Lecture 17 :
CSS Selectors have higher priority over XPath Expressions
Section 5 : FireBug and FirePath Alternatives 19 Lectures 03:35:13
Lecture 1 :
FireBug got deprecated and discontinued
Lecture 2 :
List of Alternatives
Lecture 3 :
ChroPath for Chrome Browser
Lecture 4 :
ChroPath for Firefox Browser
Lecture 5 :
ChroPath for Opera Browser
Lecture 6 :
Devtools-highlighter
Lecture 7 :
Try XPath
Lecture 8 :
Default Chrome Dev Tools
Lecture 9 :
XPath Finder
Lecture 10 :
XPath Helper
Lecture 11 :
Relative XPath Helper
Lecture 12 :
MRI
Lecture 13 :
True Path for Chrome
Lecture 14 :
True Path for Firefox
Lecture 15 :
Ranorex Selocity
Lecture 16 :
Default Firefox Dev Tools
Lecture 17 :
Chrome Console
Lecture 18 :
ChroPath is the best
Lecture 19 :
Learn Manual Creation of XPath Expressions and CSS Selectors

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