I’ve just made public a beta version of my “Selenium Simplified” book.

I still have work to do on it, so I have released it as a beta book in pdf format as an ebook (e-book ?), and at a bargain price too.

This means that:

• it costs much less than it will when I finish it.
• it may change a little before the final release.

I still need to write sections to cover CSS locators, and a bit more on JUnit (suites, command line usage, CI Integration). But the main sections exist (210 A4 pages of it, in fact).

I have written it as a tutorial so it walks the reader through everything the need to help them learn how to use Selenium for automation, using Java.

So this isn’t to teach the reader how to use the IDE (but I do cover that), this is to get the reader programming their automated tests in Java.

I wrote it for the beginner. So I assume no knowledge of programming or automated testing.

I started writing “Selenium Simplified” because at every conference I go to, I meet numerous people who tell me that they are not technical enough to do automation, or that they just don’t understand the articles on the web or in magazines about automation when code appears.

For some reason people freeze when faced with a blank window in an programming IDE and don’t know how to write code.

Others have written programming and automation books aimed at the beginner tester before:

• Visual Basic for Testers, by Mary Sweeny
• Everyday Scripting with Ruby, by Brian Marick

So in the grand tradition of trying to make it easier for testers to start automating, I wrote “Selenium Simplified”

Check the “Selenium Simplified” advertorial page, to see just how cheap I’ve made it for you to start learning how to automate web testing.