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Elegant Browser Automation with Python and Selenium (Udemy.com)

Fast, scalable, professional-grade UI automation principles

Created by: Brandon Blair

Last updated February 2022

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What you will learn

  • Automate professionally, build applications that scrape web data
  • Build sustainable, scalable, readable UI automation

How it compares

Against the other 108 rated Udemy courses in Selenium on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 54% of them
  • Reviews1,997#34 of 109 by number of reviews
  • Length6.7 hoursshorter than 61% of them
  • Last updatedFebruary 2022earlier than 56% of them

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Course Description

Master the fundamentals of browser automation using the Python language with Selenium. Walk confidently into any interview for entry-level browser automation or increase your technical value by showing your current employer that you are ready for new and bigger challenges.

Learn lessons collected over years of professional automation in just a few hours.

  • Fast, readable automation using minimal code
  • The quickest and most effective way to identify web elements
  • Page Objects and Element Objects implemented sensibly and effectively
  • Industry-ready test structure and composition

A Bulletproof approach to automation fundamentals  Python is one of the most popular languages in the world, and the demand for it is only increasing. Selenium is an industry standard for test automation, so Python's readability make the two a perfect match for writing valuable automated tests.

Browser automation is in high demand as software testing costs rise and the software industry explodes in size. Unfortunately, engineers interested in automation have little in the way of concrete guidance on how to be successful, or what properly written automation code even looks like. 

The most widely circulated videos on these topics speak only to the technologies themselves, and do not offer viable implementation guidance or valuable industry practices. I have made these valuable practices the focus of this course.

Content and Overview Suitable for those comfortable with basic Python and Object-Oriented Programming concepts, these lectures build a rock-solid foundation of skills required to automate at a professional level.

Beginning with a step-by-step setup of the development environment using Virtual Environments (a must for aspiring Python developers) and Selenium setup, this course allows you to watch as I walk you through each step, explaining as we go.

Once the environment is ready we will discuss how web elements work, and how the best and fastest automation engineers (a rare breed!) identify them for automation. I will demonstrate each concept in real time as a conversation. That means you will spend almost NO time watching traditional lectures or slides, and almost all your time seeing the concepts in action or following along with me.

Students completing the course will have the knowledge to begin a career in entry-level browser automated testing, or to automate their browser for any number of useful purposes to include data-scraping and task automation.

Equipped with code samples,code challenges, short quizzes, and info-rich videos, you’ll have no trouble following along with the concepts, and I am always available for questions.

Finally, automating is a blast, and I wish more people did it. Let me rephrase that - I wish more people did it, and did it well! We need more people like you executing effective, high-value automation solutions, so let's get started on this journey together!

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Instructor Details

Brandon Blair

I design fast, scalable, maintainable frameworks for automated testing in the UI (browser), backend/API, and mobile testing domains for a living. I am passionate about delivering critical insights to teams on short notice by giving them powerful automation tools, and I enjoy teaching strong foundational concepts to others with a desire to solve problems in this space. Automating is a blast, and more people should do it - and do it well.

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Reviews

4.5

1,997 ratings on Udemy

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By Anonymized User on 2/17/2023

The course is good, many valuable info. However, in too many occasions the instructor says this is not as it should be but for now its ok (not ok for everyone and we want to see correct solution of all the test case, not just its small part), this also causes a kind of contradictions. And in fact, how much testing was shown? Locating 2 text fields, sending text and reading text, not that much. In my opinion much more could be shown. Sometimes, especially 2nd half too much talking about something which is clear and obvious. property decorator was not explained enough when to use it, there more talking / explaining would be welcome. but e.g. etree method was new to me, so yeah, ok.

By Christopher Johnson on 2/1/2023

It was very difficult to follow along due to the disorganized manner in which the material is presented. Things are done between lectures that he doesn't cover and you are left scrambling trying to figure out what he did behind the scenes. Also there is way too much jumping around and rambling when he's introducing new concepts. When it seems he's about to explain how something works, he frequently goes off on tangents which is quite distracting and frustrating. He also frequently changes his mind mid-code which adds yet another level of frustration when trying to learn and follow along. I tried to follow along for as long as I could, but gave up on Lecture 18 because its too hard to focus with all rambling and the way he is all over the place in his teaching style. The instructor clearly knows his stuff, but the way its presented makes it needlessly tedious and frustrating.

By Aryan Behal on 11/7/2020

too basic so far

By Adam Foust on 9/24/2020

Love the teaching style so far. This is exactly how I have to learn things!

By Daniel Mayle on 9/13/2020

Just finished entire course. Very informative. Only complaint was I couldn't get the secret sauce efficient.py page to work like in the video.

By Otvio Lus da Silva Barradas on 9/13/2020

It's an introductory class for automating the browser with Selenium and it doesn't go into a lot o specific things, which is good for those who are beginners at the subject. Even though the course is simple in general, it provided me everything I needed to get started without feeling lost.

By Chaman Sahu on 9/10/2020

Very good course.

By Fernando Naranjo on 8/24/2020

Excellent content, very useful overall

By Sorin Malita on 8/14/2020

As someone who wanted to get a better dive into Automation as I only knew the basics this course was so good that It teaches you to think of your test than more than something you do now, It's something that needs to last a long time and when people go see it they don't need to be afraid to touch it . Before my code was messy but I really think I managed to make it much cleaner and easier to read .

By Navkanth Jyothi on 8/10/2020

The course started off very well but towards the middle it became very slow and there was very little content and almost no value addition

By Sandeep Vaidya on 8/8/2020

All good so far. Enjoying the course.

By Nikola Karajanov on 8/8/2020

Amazing course!
I have personally gotten a lot more value from the "Elegant Automation Frameworks with Python and Pytest" course by Brandon, because I was already familiar with most of the concepts covered in this course.
But decided to go through this one just in case I might learn some tricks I may have missed and again I was not dissapointed, I have filled in some gapps I had regarding logic in implementing POM and have gained confidence in my approaches I am currently practicing, all while having fun.
Highly recommend to everyone who might want to get into browser automation with selenium.

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Overall Score : 90 / 100