2026 -Using Spring Boot Framework with Selenium + Playwright (Udemy.com)
Automate application with the power of Spring Boot framework for UI Test with Selenium, Playwright and Microservices
Created by: Karthik KK
Last updated September 2026
Our take
Based on the ratings of 409 students, a sample of their written reviews and the syllabus, as the course stood in September 2026. No course pays to be reviewed.
Karthik KK's course is aimed at test automation people who want Spring Boot inside their Java frameworks. The syllabus shows about 12 hours and 109 lectures: Spring basics, Selenium integration, Cucumber, parallel runs, GitHub Actions, then a small microservice and RestAssured tests. It expects some Java and Selenium going in. It is not a general Spring course, and one reviewer said they had taken much better Spring courses.
Reviewers who liked it praise the order of topics and how it ties Cucumber, TestNG, Selenium and Spring Boot together, explaining why each step is there. Of 409 ratings, 217 are five stars, and students call the teaching clear. The complaints are real, though. Someone new to Spring said they would have been lost. Others found the microservice testing shallow, the structure loose, and some code copy-pasted or dated. An older review hit Selenium 4 problems. The final section is almost four hours on RestAssured and Cucumber, not Spring Boot.
Playwright gets six short lectures, about 26 minutes, so treat it as a taste. The course was last updated in September 2026, years after the Selenium 4 complaint was posted. If you already run Selenium in Java and want a working Spring Boot setup with parallel execution and CI, it is a practical fit. For deep Spring or Playwright skills, pick a dedicated course.
Pros
- Shows how Cucumber, TestNG, Selenium and Spring Boot fit into one test framework
- Covers thread-safe parallel Selenium runs and a GitHub Actions pipeline with reporting
- Builds a small Spring Boot microservice, then tests it with RestAssured and MockMvc
- Instructor explains the reasoning behind each step, and reviewers say they could use it at work
Cons
- Playwright gets only six lectures, about 26 minutes, so it is a sampler
- Reviewers call microservice testing shallow and some code dated or copy-pasted
- Nearly four hours go to a RestAssured and Cucumber crash course, not Spring Boot
This course is a kind of summary, of how Cucumber, TestNG, Selenium and Spring Boot work together.
Listed for all levels, but it expects basic Java and Selenium. Spring newcomers say it gets confusing.
What you will learn
- Spring boot basics from complete ground up
- Spring Boot Basics for Automation testing With Selenium and Playwright
- Spring boot with Selenium and Cucumber
- Selenium Parallel Test execution with Spring boot with Thread safe manner
- Selenium test running in CI/CD pipeline with Test Reporting
- Spring boot Microservices app development
- Spring boot Microservice testing
Course content
10 sections · 109 lectures · 12 hours of video 14 articles
- 1Introduction 2 free previews2 lectures · 8 min
- 2Spring Boot Basics 2 free previews15 lectures · 2 hours
- 3Spring boot with Selenium Integration 1 free preview10 lectures · 1.2 hours
- 4Spring boot with Playwright Integration6 lectures · 26 min
- 5Spring boot with Selenium and Cucumber Integration8 lectures · 38 min
- 6Parallel Selenium Test Execution with Spring boot12 lectures · 45 min
- 7Test Reporting and CI/CD for Spring Boot with Selenium8 lectures · 40 min
- 8Writing Microservice application with Spring boot12 lectures · 1.4 hours
- 9Testing Microservice application with Spring boot and RestAssured15 lectures · 1.2 hours
- 10[CRASH COURSE] - API Testing RestAssured with Cucumber21 lectures · 3.8 hours
Who it is for
The instructor says it suits
- QA
- BA
- Dev
- DevOps
What you need before you start
- Basic knowledge on Java
- Basic knowledge on Selenium and RestAssured API
How it compares
Against the other 101 rated Udemy courses in Java Spring Framework on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 34% of them
- Reviews409#79 of 102 by number of reviews
- Length12.2 hourslonger than 53% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2026more recently than 94% of them
Course Description
Spring Boot for Automation Testing (UI and Microservices) is designed to provide a clear and practical understanding of how to integrate the Spring Boot framework with popular automation testing tools like Selenium & Playwright for UI automation, and RestAssured for testing micro services. This course caters to beginners, even those with ZERO prior knowledge of Spring Boot, by offering an easy-to-follow approach to mastering automation testing for both UI and microservices-based applications.
What You Will Learn:
By the end of this course, you’ll have a solid foundation in Spring Boot and its application in automation testing, including:
1. Spring Boot Basics
In this section, you’ll learn how to create a Spring Boot project and integrate it with Selenium to automate UI testing. We’ll cover key concepts like:
• Dependency Injection (DI)
• Constructor Injection
• Field Injection
• Value Injection
• Profiles, and more.
2. Spring Boot for Selenium Automation
Building on the knowledge from Section 1, you’ll apply Spring Boot to structure Selenium tests, streamlining your automation framework.
3. Spring Boot for Selenium and Cucumber Integration
Learn how to integrate Cucumber with Selenium and Spring Boot to write BDD-style (Behavior-Driven Development) test cases that are human-readable and efficient.
4. Parallel Selenium Execution with Spring Boot
Learn how to run Selenium tests in parallel using Spring Boot, helping you to scale and optimize test execution.
5. CI/CD of Selenium Test with Github Actions
Learn how to Selenium test within Github Actions along with Spring boot
6. Developing Microservice Applications with Spring Boot
In this section, we’ll guide you through creating a microservice application using Spring Boot from scratch, which we’ll then use for testing in the next section.
7. Testing Microservices with Spring Boot and RestAssured
Test the microservice application built in Section 4 using:
• RestAssured for API testing
• TestRestTemplate
• MockMvc for testing Spring MVC web components
8. RestAssured Crash Course
A bonus crash course on RestAssured, originally featured on YouTube, has been added to teach you how to perform API testing in Java. You’ll also learn how to apply these techniques within the Spring Boot framework.
And the end of the course, you will have a complete basic understanding of Spring boot to perform automation testing.
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
409 Reviews
Karthik KK
I am Karthik K.K. I do consulting, blogging and researching on various different tools and technologies which inspire my interest. I have been into Software Automation Testing for over 20 years now and my interest in learning new stuffs which enables automation has never been compromised.
Due to my passion in automation testing I got fully exposed to tools and languages like
AI and Machine Learning: Built an Tool for Playwright MCP Server, LangChain, DeepEval, RAGAs, HuggingFace, Fine-tuning LLMs
Desktop & Web : Cypress, Selenium, Specflow,Puppeteer,Plawright, UFT, VS Coded UI, Ranorex ,Test Complete and Cucumber
Mobile : Appium, Robotium,Calabash, Espresso, Selendroid
Languages : C#, Java, Ruby, Powershell, Javascript, VBScript
Cloud Tools : Azure, Dockers
Misc Tools: Mockito, Rest-assured, Bound-Box,FluentAutomation
Interested in: MVC, Entity framework, LINQ, Fakes, Distributed deployment, SAAS, Event-Driven System
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Reviews
By Ilkhomdzhon Ishonkulov on 12/17/2024
The concept is good, and this is exactly what I was looking for, but the structure of the classes could be improved. Since you have introduced Lombok, why would you continue using classes with manually defined getters and setters in the subsequent classes?
By Yu jing on 11/20/2024
The course cover indepth information on Spring boot and how to use it with both Selenium and Playwright, I dont think other courses have this much coverage. I think this course has all of it. I can easily implement it at my work.
By Symond on 11/19/2024
I feel this course is very Nice with introduction to Spring boot from basic to advanced. I also feel, it has lot of details on Springboot with Selenium, which is a plus for this course.
By Nemanja Maksic on 3/13/2023
Firstly, I found that the course lacked the depth and detail that I was hoping for. The content covered in the course felt rather superficial, and I didn't feel like I gained a solid understanding of the topic. Additionally, I found that the course structure was confusing and disorganized. It was difficult for me to follow along with the lectures, and I often found myself feeling lost or unsure of what to do next. Crash course as a last section took almost 4 hrs and surprisingly it was about RestAssured and Cucumber, not focusing at all on SpringBoot which is the main topic of this course, and during the course it was told that the code will be refactored to show how dependency injection is being implemented on this code but we saw none of that. Overall, I think that the course has the potential to be a great resource for learners, but it needs significant improvement. I would recommend revisiting the course content and structure to make it more comprehensive and easier to follow.
By Vaclav Vlcek on 12/29/2022
This is a very nice course. The sequence of topics is greatly chosen. You understand exactly why you are doing particular things, it is not just listing of all functions that cucumber or selenium offers. This course is a kind of summary, of how Cucumber, TestNG, Selenium and Spring Boot work together. If you don't know all these technologies yet, it might be a bit challenging for you. But if you plan to apply this development stack, I recommend you to see this course anyways, since it nicely glues all these things together. I would just omit the last RestAssured section. To my opinion, it doesn't fit here much. Very well made! Thank you, Karthik!
By Forrest Cagle on 10/20/2022
I have been researching converting an existing project to Spring Boot for a few days and have learned more about doing so just in the intro of this class. Excellent content!!!
By Miu Alina on 8/22/2022
After failing purchasing other courses, i found this trainer which explains very well. Best regards for this trainer.
By Konar Balaji on 5/28/2022
interestng lectures so far
By Hugo Paulo Fernandes on 4/21/2022
Course is not updated for Selenium 4 compatibility and the students may encounter some issues that may not be able to easily solve. If not solved, the part of the course respecting Selenium becomes unusable. Also the course itself has a lot of gaps and it is somewhat superficial.
By Srivatsa R on 5/20/2021
Very interesting to see how to leverage the flexibility of springboot for automation testing. I have seen Karthik videos before and this one definitely maintains the standard.
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Overall Score : 88 / 100












