Delve into designing a test automation framework using Java and Selenium. Learn about Selenium basics, TestNG, build management, logging, and reporting to automate web applications effectively.

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Testing the user interface for any application is generally time-consuming when done for each new release. UI test automation is the most common and effective way to simulate the actual user journey and business use-cases for any application.
In this course, you will learn how to design a test automation framework from scratch for automating any web-based application using Java, Selenium, and TestNG. You’ll start by learning the basics of Selenium and TestNG and then move on to learn about build management, logging, and reporting, which are key learnings for any QA engineer or developer. By the end of this course, you will have successfully created a UI test automation framework.

Design a Test Automation Framework with Selenium and Java

# What is configuration management?

One of the key features of a framework is ***Configuration management***. A framework can contain so many features, but how easy is it to customize it and change the behavior of the already present features. Therefore, using configuration-driven parameters is an essential feature to have in the framework.

# Types of configuration files
The configuration can be picked up from files like `.properties`, `.ini`, `.xml`, `.json`, `.yml`, or `.toml`, or it can be picked up from the database or any other external sources.

# Use of configuration in the framework

The framework should be able to read the configurable parameters from any of the sources and be able to change the behaviour of the features provided by the framework.

For example, let's say the framework has utilities to connect to the database. One of the projects using the framework uses database connections and one does not. If the framework always connects to the database irrespective of whether it is used or not, then it's not a good way to utilize the resources. To avoid such a thing from happening, if we have a configuration that the framework reads to turn on/off database connection initialization like `database.enabled = true` or `database.enabled = false`, we can control the behavior at will with no hard-coding.

This will allow the framework to work independently and free from hard-coding, thus making it more extensible, robust, configurable and easily pluggable with any CI/CD tools.

In this lesson we will walk you through the basics of Configuration Management.

Introduction to UI Test Automation

Selenium WebDriver Basics

TestNG Framework

Build Management

Configuration Management

Logging

Reporting

Designing the UI Test Automation Framework

Sample UI Test Framework

Basics of Configuration Management

What is configuration management?