Free Selenium WebDriver with Java Course Released To Youtube

TLDR; Selenium WebDriver Course course has been released to YouTube as a 16 hour video. And split into 8 smaller 1-4 hour video chunks

Free Selenium WebDriver Courses

Playlist and Resources

Course Page

course page

The course page has been updated to have the videos embedded, with some text description to make it easier to navigate.

I dropped some of the heavily deprecated content and re-organised it slightly when combining the videos.

Slides etc. can also be found via the course page

Other Free Online WebDriver Courses

I should also point out that in 2024, Rex Jones and FreeCodeCamp released a 7 Hour video course to YouTube showing WebDriver with Java, which could also be worth looking at for your self-education.

Rex Jones:

History of My Course

I first created the course for Selenium WebDriver 2, then updated it for Selenium WebDriver 3.

This was the first ‘big’ online course I created and it got a little too large.

Also it was fairly horrible to keep updating over time.

It would have been fine to update if it had only been on one hosting platform.

First it was on Udemy, but then they changed all their rules, controlled what you could charge, and changed their fee structure.

So then I moved to Teachable, but they backtracked on their promise to handle VAT properly (which they now do I think).

So then I moved to Zenler, and they then migrated to New Zenler, and then they completely abandoned the agreement that I was on for course hosting and basically turned off access to the course.

I tried to keep the course updated on all platforms at the same time because I had people subscribed to all the course sites. This made maintenance a tad hard, but forced me to automate, using the sites public and private APIs. I’m quite resourceful when it comes to automating.

Because of this, I did write code which could download the videos and create import routines and ‘mostly automated’ synchronisation tools for most of the sites. This made my life a little easier and meant that I could create the free to Patreon subscribers course hosting on testerhq.com

The data structures and code that backs testerhq makes it possible for me to now script the creation of longer combined videos through the use of some command line tooling and ffmpeg magic.

I’ve always tried to honour the ’lifetime access’ agreement, even when the course hosting providers haven’t.

Up until a month or so ago, I was able to create free coupons for people to migrate from NewZenler over to Udemy, but that no longer seems to work for my courses now.

So now… the easiest way for people on the different course hosting site to get access is directly on Youtube. And if you want access to the individual videos, people on Udemy should still have access. NewZenler folks have no access at all. I’m not sure about Teachable. But testerhq.com, which is available to anyone supporting me on Patreon has the individual videos.

The TesterHQ videos are hosted on Vimeo, so I nervously await changes to Vimeo due to the ownership change over to Bending Spoons.

Relevance

The course is a little old now because it is based on WebDriver 3. But there aren’t that many changes from WebDriver 3 to version 4 - some methods were removed, and the WebDriverWait now uses a Duration rather than int for milliseconds.

But… I did also keep the source code for the course up to date, and did update it for WebDriver 4.

github.com/eviltester/seleniumWebDriverAPICourse

The docs folder of the above repo contains:

the slides for the online course
handouts and slides for physical workshops based on the online course content

So… using the code in the repo, in combination with the videos, should still work.

If I get time then I might create a much tighter, more modern version of the course. But don’t hold your breath! I have other projects taking priority at the moment.