Webinar: How to create locators for Selenium WebDriver

This is the third webinar from the free webinar series on test automation.
Video recording (duration 1 hour 12 min.):

Topics and details of the video under the cut

The webinar presenter, Mikhail Polyarush, the webinar presenter, talks about how to build simple locators for Selenium WebDriver based on id / name / link and complex: XPath and CSS selectors.

This webinar is entirely devoted solely to creating the right locators, discussing their work and demonstrating with practical examples.

00: 00-02: 09	Introduction.
02: 10–06: 19	Toolkit: Firefox, Firebug, Fire Path. Install and run tools.
06: 20–10: 59	Simple locators (id, name, link). How does Selenium IDE build locators?
11: 00–12: 59	Complicated Locators (CSS, XPath)
13: 00–05: 29	When should complex locators be used?
15: 30–16: 05	Problems when using complex locators
16: 06–21: 24	Recommendations for the proper storage and preparation of complex locators
21: 25–38: 55	Compilation of CSS locators. Search for elements by id, class properties and attribute values. Relations between elements and nesting levels.
38: 56–45: 59	Practical examples of using CSS locators
46: 00–51: 04	Compiling locators using XPath. Syntax. XPath advantage over CSS. Using attributes and filters.
51: 05–56: 11	Axes in xpath. Definition of related and dependent elements.
56: 12–56: 59	Frequently used functions in XPath filters. count (), contains (), text (), position (), last ()
57: 00–1: 04: 14	Practical examples of creating XPath locators.
1: 04: 15–1: 05: 24	Results
1: 05: 25–1: 12: 07	Answers to questions: Regular expression support, the difference between Sizzle and CSS

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Author: Mikhail Polyarush. The webinar was supported by Ciklum.
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