Learn how to design a test automation framework for automating web-based applications.

Test Automation

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 module, we’ll learn to design a test automation framework from scratch to automate any web-based application using Java, Selenium, and TestNG. We’ll start by learning the basics of Selenium and TestNG and then learn about build management, logging, and reporting, all of which are key concepts for any QA engineer or developer. By the end of this module, we will successfully create a UI test automation framework.

Design a Test Automation Framework with Selenium and Java

WebElement is an interface for the Selenium to perform any action on the webpage, anything present on the web page is a web element like text, link, image, input field, etc. and to perform any action on the web element we should first identify it.

# Basic components of a WebElement

* HTML Tag
* Attributes

Methods available for interacting with a page are available in the [WebElement](https://selenium.dev/selenium/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/WebElement.html) class:



# Types of WebElement

* Edit Box
* Link
* Button
* Image, Image Link, Image Button
* Text Area
* Check Box
* Radio Button
* Drop Down Box
* List Box
* Combo Box

Identifying WebElement in Selenium WebDriver has already been discussed in the [previous chapter](https://www.educative.io/courses/test-automation-framework-selenium-java/locators-in-selenium).

In this lesson, we’ll learn about the basic components and types of web elements.

Working with WebElements