How long does it take to learn automation using Selenium?

Question

How long does it take to learn automation using Selenium?

Answer 1

Actually, it totally depends upon your interest and availability to spend time on the topic. If you already know any programming language such as Java, PHP, Python or other languages being used in selenium. Then you can directly follow the below-mentioned steps otherwise firstly you need to learn one of the programming languages try to learn Java in that case. There is a high-level schedule below if you follow something like that you can learn selenium in 3–4 week.

1. Go through online articles/blogs/ videos and understand what selenium is and how webdriver came into existence. {1 day}. You can read the following Selenium tutorial or you can also watch the following video tutorial on Selenium.

2. Download Selenium IDE and start exploring it, though a basic tool it behaves as a foundation for your selenium expertise {2 days}.

3. Download selenium webdriver and start making automation scripts for web applications. Make a lot of variety of scripts to gain more experience on the type of applications { 5 days }.

4. Enable your all scripts to run on multiple browsers ( not parallel execution) {2 days}.

5. Start building your own framework that reads data and locators from excel files.

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