selenium-qa-practice

i started learning selenium after finishing manual testing on HighScores.ai and SecondBrainLabs. these are my scripts from week 3 onwards. still learning, still making mistakes, still going.

how it's organized

selenium-qa-practice/
├── conftest.py
├── pages/
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── login_page.py
├── tests/
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── conftest.py
│   ├── test_10_pom_login.py
│   ├── test_11_screenshot_on_failure.py
│   ├── test_12_alerts.py
│   ├── test_13_pytest_basics.py
│   ├── test_14_fixtures.py
│   ├── test_15_data_driven.py
│   └── test_16_full_suite.py
├── test_1_open_browser.py
├── test_2_google_search.py
├── test_3_login.py
├── test_4_negative_login.py
├── test_5_form_fill.py
├── test_6_form_fill_complete.py
├── test_7_multiple_assertions.py
├── test_8_explicit_wait.py
└── test_9_xpath_practice.py

what each script does

script	what it does	status
test_1_open_browser.py	first script — just opens browser and reads title	✅
test_2_google_search.py	search automation — had to switch to duckduckgo (google blocked me)	✅
test_3_login.py	login form automation — fill and submit	✅
test_4_negative_login.py	wrong credentials test — checks error message	✅
test_5_form_fill.py	fills basic form fields	✅
test_6_form_fill_complete.py	complete form — dropdowns, checkboxes, scroll	✅
test_7_multiple_assertions.py	checks multiple things on login page	✅
test_8_explicit_wait.py	replaced time.sleep with proper webdriverwait	✅
test_9_xpath_practice.py	5 different ways to find elements using xpath	✅
pages/login_page.py	page object model — all login page stuff in one place	✅
tests/test_10_pom_login.py	login test using pom — much cleaner code	✅
tests/test_11_screenshot_on_failure.py	saves screenshot when test fails	✅
tests/test_12_alerts.py	handles simple, confirm, and prompt alerts	✅
tests/test_13_pytest_basics.py	first proper pytest tests with assert	✅
tests/test_14_fixtures.py	fixtures — chrome opens once for all tests	✅
tests/test_15_data_driven.py	one test runs with 4 different login combinations	✅
tests/test_16_full_suite.py	7 login tests in a class — runs together	✅
sql_day1_basics.py	create table, insert rows, select, where, count	✅
sql_day2_crud.py	update, delete, like, and/or — full crud with qa checks	✅
sql_day3_pytest_db.py	sql inside pytest — 7 db validation tests	✅
sql_day4_advanced.py	joins, duplicates, null checks, group by	✅
sql_day5_portfolio.py	complete qa db report — 7 checks, crud	✅

run all 17 tests at once

pytest tests/test_13_pytest_basics.py tests/test_14_fixtures.py tests/test_15_data_driven.py tests/test_16_full_suite.py -v --html=reports/report_complete.html

honest things i learned the hard way

• google blocks selenium completely switched to duckduckgo — still works fine

• was using time.sleep(3) everywhere found out that's lazy — explicit wait is the proper way and also faster

• normalize-space() in xpath saved me when button text had hidden whitespace and nothing else was working

• forgot .clear() in data driven test fields were stacking text on top of each other took me a while to figure that out 😅

• page object model felt confusing at first once it clicked i went back and looked at my old scripts thinking "why did i write it like that"

• was reading page title before page loaded kept getting empty string had to wait for title first

• try/except is how you catch failures properly without it the script just crashes with no proof

• conftest.py shares fixtures across files without it you repeat the same setup everywhere

tools

• python 3.13
• selenium 4
• webdriver manager
• pytest 9.0.2
• pytest-html
• pycharm

practice sites used

• the-internet.herokuapp.com — login tests
• demoqa.com — form fill tests
• duckduckgo.com — search test

where i started vs where i am now

week 3 start: just opened a browser and printed the title. felt like magic at the time.

week 5 end: 17 tests running with one command, html report generated automatically, page object model, fixtures, data driven testing.

still a lot to learn but the progress feels real.

next

• sql for qa (week 6) ✅ DONE
• full portfolio cleanup (week 7)
• apply everywhere (week 8)