1. Introduction of Selenium Webdriver Using Java

2. What is Selenium?
Selenium is used for automating web applications for testing purposes. It is a suite of tools to automate browsers across many platforms.
This is a stand alone tool.
Selenium has the following tools :
Selenium IDE
Selenium RC
Selenium Grid
Selenium WebDriver

3. Selenium Webdriver Open Source Software
Supports Different Operating Environments Windows, Linux, Mac
Supports Different languages like Java, C#, Ruby, Python, Javascript
Supports cross browser testing like Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari

4. Tools needed to Run Selenium
Java 8
Intellij
Firebug
Firepath
Maven
Junit

5. Java 8 Make sure to set the Environment variables for JAVA_HOME
Also set the path variable to for Java bin location

6. Firebug and Firepath
Firebug and Firepath are the tools that integrate with firefox. These both helps to inspect the web elements and generate the Xpath.

7. Maven Install Maven software from
Unzip the software and specific the location in path variable

8. Junit
Junit is test framework for Java programming language. Annotations in Junit: After Before AfterClass Ignore

9. JavaDoc
Classes needed to write a basic selenium code WebDriver WebElement By

10. By Class By.ByClassName, By.ByCssSelector, By.ById, By.ByLinkText,
By.ByName,
By.ByPartialLinkText,
By.ByTagName,
By.ByXPath,

11. Xpath
Xpath is a syntax or language to find the web elements in a web page.
Absolute Xpath
Relative Xpath

12. Xpath //tagname[@attribute-name = ‘value’] Examples:
or class=‘input’]
and class=‘input’]
//input[text()=‘hello’]