🚀 Day 27 of My Automation Journey – Introduction to Selenium & Maven Setup

Today marks a big milestone in my automation journey 🎯 Till now, I was learning core Java logic 👉 Today, I stepped into real automation using Selenium This is where things get exciting 🔥 🔹 1. What is Selenium? 👉 Selenium is a tool used for automating web browsers That means: Opening a browser 🌐 Navigating websites Clicking buttons Filling forms Validating UI 💡 In simple terms: 👉 If you can do it manually in a browser, Selenium can automate it. 🔹 2. Why Selenium? ✔ Saves time ⏱ ✔ Reduces manual effort ✔ Useful for testing & automation ✔ Industry standard tool 🔹 3. Setting Up Selenium using Maven Instead of downloading jars manually, we use Maven 📦 👉 Maven helps manage: Dependencies Versions Project structure 🔹 4. Understanding pom.xml File This is the heart of a Maven project ❤️ 💻 Sample pom.xml: <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>Selenium1</groupId> <artifactId>Selenium1&l