Selenide101 – Getting up and running with real web tests (Alexei Vinogradov, Germany), part 1

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Selenide presents a concrete toolkit for real web tests using Selenium WebDriver with Java 8, Gradle and JUnit/TestNG, demonstrated on Amazon and an Angular Material autocomplete. It claims auto-wait and concise API that reduces flakiness, produces screenshots and saved page source for diagnostics, supports command line property overrides for base URL and browser, and shows page object patterns that run in Chrome but encounter geckodriver instability so some Firefox setups fail despite the rest working.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:01About Selenide
3. 2:03Problems with Selenium
4. 10:20Creating a new project
5. 13:17Simple example
6. 17:35Environments
7. 20:07Class names
8. 21:55Example
9. 22:55Test method
10. 24:55Locator
11. 26:10Making some checks
12. 28:45Common error
13. 33:10Driver manager
14. 34:55Property file
15. 36:05Delete URL
16. 38:50Variables

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