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 Maven?

[Apache Maven](https://maven.apache.org/) is a software project management and comprehension tool that can manage a project's build, reporting, and documentation from a central piece of information, making it a complete build lifecycle framework.

# System requirements

**Maven 3.3+** requires **JDK 1.7** or above to execute. They still allow you to build against 1.3 and other JDK versions.

# Installation

The current latest Maven can be downloaded from [apache-maven-3.6.3](http://apachemirror.wuchna.com/maven/maven-3/3.6.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.6.3-bin.zip).

To find the latest version, please follow the [link](http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi).

The downloaded binary needs to be added to classpath after extraction.

## Windows
```bash
export PATH=%PATH%;<path\apache-maven-3.6.3\bin>;
```

## Linux / Mac

```
export PATH=$PATH:<path/apache-maven-3.6.3/bin>
```

Alternatively, we can install using `brew`: 

```
brew install maven
```

For installing `brew`, please follow the [link](https://brew.sh/).

# Creating Maven project from the command line

```
mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-app -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DarchetypeVersion=1.4 -DinteractiveMode=false
```

* `archetypeArtifactId`: a starter template to use for creating the basic project structure.
* `groupId`, `artifactId`, and `version`: this combination enables you to identify an artifact uniquely. groupId is mostly the company’s domain reversed. For example, `groupId` of `example.com` is created as com.example. Version can be in format as `<major.version>.<minor.version>.<patch.number>-<RELEASE/SNAPSHOT>`. For example, `1.0.0-SNAPSHOT` or `1.0.0-RELEASE`. Please follow the [link](https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-naming-conventions.html) for more information.

By running the above command, a basic project structure will be created.

This lesson gives a brief introduction to Maven. It is more like a guide to set a Maven project on our system, depending on its requirements.

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

Creating Maven Project

What is Maven? #

System requirements #

Installation #