Take your Java programming to the next level with this advanced course in web development and automation. Designed for learners who already understand Java fundamentals, you’ll explore powerful tools and techniques to handle real-world programming challenges, from mastering regular expressions to building automated browser workflows with Selenium.

You’ll begin with the essentials of regex, learning quantifiers, character classes, and operators through hands-on exercises that sharpen your problem-solving skills. Next, you’ll strengthen your understanding of exception handling, differentiating between errors and exceptions, and mastering try-catch blocks and finally clauses to build resilient applications. From there, you’ll dive into date and time operations introduced in Java 8, gaining confidence with local and custom date-time manipulations and calculations. You’ll also learn how to manage data effectively by working with text files using Apache Commons IO and handling spreadsheets with Apache POI. In the second half of the course, you’ll apply your skills to browser automation with Selenium WebDriver. Step by step, you’ll set up your testing environment, locate elements with XPath and CSS selectors, and handle collections of web elements. Advanced topics like XPath axes and dynamic CSS selectors will give you the expertise to validate web pages, extract details, and automate complex tasks. By the end of this 12-module course, you will have: • Mastered advanced Java concepts including regex, exception handling, and date-time operations. • Gained practical experience managing files and Excel data with industry-standard libraries. • Built confidence in web automation using Selenium WebDriver, XPath, and CSS selectors. • Acquired the skills to apply Java to real-world development and testing scenarios. This course is ideal for intermediate to advanced Java developers who already have a solid grasp of core Java concepts and some basic web development knowledge. If you’re ready to expand your expertise into automation and advanced programming practices, this course will give you the tools to excel. This course now features Coursera Coach: An interactive learning companion that helps you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress.

Updated in May 2025.

This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This course is designed to elevate your Selenium WebDriver and test automation skills by automating complex web elements like select boxes, datepickers, and web tables, including handling multi-select boxes and web table cell objects. You'll manage browser pop-ups, multiple windows, and differentiate between close and quit methods. The course covers automation for iFrames, JavaScript alerts, and advanced mouse actions such as drag-and-drop, resizing UI elements, and multi-key operations. Test synchronization focuses on implicit and explicit waits, ensuring efficient test runs. You will explore Selenium 4 features, including configuration, relative locators, and updates to the actions class. Additionally, the course delves into operations like taking screenshots and retrieving element dimensions before advancing to TestNG concepts, including installation, automation, and using annotations for test management. The Page Object Model and Page Factory provide a framework for organizing test code, while TestNG's advanced features like groups, parameters, and parallel execution prepare you for any test automation challenge. This course is ideal for intermediate to advanced test automation engineers and developers with basic Selenium WebDriver knowledge, looking to expand their TestNG and advanced web automation skills.