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Many of the things I’ve learned about software testing in recent years I discovered through reading books and blogs of actual software testers who are masters of their own craft. Some of them record videos too, of tutorials and webinars and anything they find valuable for their readers/viewers, and I try to share those which I’ve found engaging, five at a time.

Here are some interesting recordings to view today, if you’d like:

How to upgrade to Selenium 3 WebDriver, MarionetteDriver and older versions with the FirefoxDriver (by Alan Richardson, a straightforward guide about upgrading existing Java automated checks to version 3 of the Selenium WebDriver)
Estimates or No Estimates? (by James Shore, about estimation and answering the more important questions of when and why should we or should we not use it)
Dave Haeffner’s Proven Method to Grading Selenium Tests (by Dave Haeffner, who introduces a way of reviewing and grading automated checks according to general ideas of what makes tests good or bad)
AppSec Awareness – A Blueprint for Security Culture Change (by Chris Romeo, about building awareness of application security testing in an organization)
Quit Social Media (by Cal Newport, about social media and living a life without it)

.. here’s a list of online courses I took last year in order to learn how to use Selenium Webdriver (an open source tool that automates browsers):

Selenium WebDriver Training with Java Basics (by Raman Arora)
Java Tutorial for Complete Beginners (by John Purcell)
Testing Framework TestNG from Scratch with Java (by Rahul Singh Rathore)
Selenium Webdriver with Java Basics + Advanced + Interview Guide (by Rahul Shetty)

It’s not a comprehensive list but they are enough to get you started. The first two in the list are free courses, the last two are paid (I always wait for a $10 sale before purchasing the more expensive courses since uDemy does that a lot anyway), all of them will of course require you to have a uDemy account to access them. I learned a bunch from these tutorials, even though it can sometimes be difficult to listen to Indian instructors, even though they won’t have all the answers that you need. A lot of the more important lessons in implementing successful automated test suites will come from the experience of using the tool, from debugging test code, from looking for answers on the main Selenium documentation or StackOverflow, and from following blogs of software testers who have used Selenium far longer than we have. But do check them out, especially the free ones, if you are into web testing and you are curious about how Webdriver works. 🙂

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