learn

The syllabus

Short guides in simple English, in a sensible order. Every one ends where learning actually happens: writing a test that gets checked against real bugs.

learn from zero

New to test automation? Take the lecture track.

Pick your level and work lecture by lecture. One idea each, with real graded practice. Your progress fills in as you go, and you can pick up where you left off any time.

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before any framework

Testing foundations

The DOM, locators, assertions, waiting and reading failures. These work the same in Cypress, Playwright and Selenium, so we teach them once. Optional, but most people who struggle later skipped this.

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Unit 01

Playwright

Playwright tutorial for beginners

Learn Playwright step by step. This beginner tutorial explains locators, actions, assertions and auto-waiting, with code examples you can run in your browser.

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Cypress → Playwright syntax

Every common Cypress command and its real Playwright equivalent, with the four differences that break a direct translation: awaiting, strict mode, chaining and retries.

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Selenium → Playwright

An honest look at migrating from Selenium to Playwright: when it is worth the months it costs, when to stay, and a command-by-command translation for when you go ahead.

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Unit 02

Cypress

Cypress tutorial for beginners

Learn Cypress step by step: cy commands, finding elements, should assertions and retry-ability, with code examples you can run in your browser.

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Unit 03

Selenium

Selenium WebDriver tutorial

Learn Selenium WebDriver with JavaScript. This beginner tutorial covers locators, explicit waits, assertions and page interactions, with runnable code examples.

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Unit 04

API Testing

API testing for beginners

Learn API testing from zero: HTTP methods, status codes, JSON responses, authentication and how to write automated API tests with code examples.

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Unit 05

Testing Concepts

Playwright vs Cypress

A clear comparison of Playwright and Cypress: syntax, speed, browser support, debugging and job market. Includes code examples of the same test in both tools.

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Waiting in all three tools

How each framework handles waiting, why sleeps cause most flaky tests, and the correct pattern in Cypress, Playwright and Selenium, with the traps in each.

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How to fix flaky tests

Flaky tests pass and fail randomly. Learn the five real causes, timing, selectors, shared state, test order and environment, and how to fix each one.

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Unit 06

Career

QA automation roadmap

A practical roadmap from manual testing to QA automation engineer. What to learn, in what order, and how long each step takes, with free practice resources.

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practice

Reading is the start. Writing tests is how it sticks.

Solve a graded problem: write a test against a real app, and we break the app on purpose to check your test would have caught it.

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