LinkedIn Free Week of Learning

LinkedIn offers free week of learning from October 24-30. This means all the courses available in LinkedIn are 100% free. You can pick up any course and learn it end to end for free in this one week. It can be anything from a basic Hello World program to Cloud Computing, Mobile Development, AI, Machine Learning, Big Data etc. If you want to become good at your leadership/managerial skills you got those soft skills development courses as well.

As a QA Engineer, this is the right time to go and grab some of the interesting courses.

Here are some of the QA courses for anyone who want to pursue a career in QA.

Foundations Of Programming: Software Quality Assurance – In this course, the author demonstrates the different kinds of software testing (from black box to white box) and how to fit each one into your development cycle. Find out how to test and report issues, and how to use a tracking system to manage the process and the results. How automating some of the testing can make the QA process more efficient and objective.

Insights On Software Quality Engineering – In this course,  the author share his personal insights and cautionary tales and discusses how to get started in QA, how it fits in at companies small and large, and how it has changed since the rise of agile workflows.

Java Essential Training

Up And Running With Java

The above courses covers basics of Java right from Hello World to required OOPS concepts that we will be using in our automation programs.

Using JUnit For Testing In Java – JUnit is an open-source testing tool specialized for Java, and it should be part of every QA Automation Engineer toolbox. Learn how to integrate JUnit with popular tools and IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ, and Maven), and conduct a variety of tests, including exception handling and parameterized tests. If you are going to learn Selenium, its good to learn any of the unit testing frameworks like Junit/TestNG.

Mastering Selenium Testing Tools – Here comes the most widely used tool in our test automation. This course is all about demystifying the Selenium suite. Learn to verify web applications, control browsers with code, and scale up the testing environment by distributing the execution of web applications on different browsers running on different operating systems. It starts with the Selenium IDE, and locating techniques like name, id, xPath, or CSS. This also covers Behavior Driver Development along with a complete automation project.

Learning Python Web Penetration Testing – This course starts off by providing an overview of the web application penetration testing process and the tools the professionals use to perform these tests and then interact with web applications using Python, HTTP, and the Requests library. Also it shows how to use the tools against a vulnerable web application created specifically for this course with practical examples.

Following is the learning path, If you want to Become a Leader.

Following is the learning path, f you want Become a Manager.

I just have mentioned very few courses related to QA Career Paths. Still there are plenty of courses available for free. But its free just for a week.

#AlwaysBeLearning

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Selenium 3.0 Officially Out Now

Yes. This is one of the major and stable release in the recent times since 2.0 got released around 5 years back.

What’s new we can expect: For users who are using WebDriver API’s this is gonna be just a drop in effortless replacement. But those who are using Selenium Grid may have to go through some minimal configuration changes.

In this version, they have removed the original Selenium Core implementation and replaced it with one backed by WebDriver. For people who are still using Selenium RC should have to undergo some maintenance because of this. This is the right time to migrate the code to WebDriver API’s.

Right from Selenium 3.0, all the major browser vendors are responsible for shipping their own implementation of WebDrivers for their browsers.

Starting with Safari-10, Apple started providing native support for WebDriver API’s. More details here – WebDriver Support in Safari 10

Google already started providing support for WebDriver API’s for Google Chrome using their ChromeDriver.

Even Microsoft when they came up with a new browser “EDGE” for Windows-10, they also came out with support for the WebDriver API’s – Microsoft WebDriver

Mozilla is doing major changes in the internals of Firefox browser to make it more stable and secure. So if you are using Firefox for your testing, you’ll need to use the GeckoDriver, which is an executable similar to the ChromeDriver. But Gecko is still in Alpha and you may have to face lot of issues with your automation w.r.t. Firefox.

The W3C specification for browser automation, based on Open Source WebDriver is still In-Progress and this is gonna reach “recommendation” status.

What you are waiting for? Just go and download the latest from Seleniumhq Downloads