🧭 Guided path
Start here, finish job-ready
10 steps in the order we'd learn them: a first test, two real apps end to end, multi-role flows, timers, tricky elements, bug hunting and UI + API checks. Tick each step when your own test does what it asks — progress is saved in this browser.
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Step 1Beginner
Set up your tool and run a first test
Install Selenium, Playwright or Cypress and run the ready-made first test against this site — no local app to start.
Done when: The first test from your tool's page passes on your machine.
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Step 2Beginner
Nova Shop — every login outcome
Cover the standard, locked and slow users, wrong and empty credentials, and the route guard on /shop/cart.
Done when: One test per login outcome, with no fixed sleeps for slow_user.
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Step 3Intermediate
Nova Shop — buy something end to end
Search, add to cart, apply SAVE10, check the totals maths, pay by card and find the order in My orders.
Done when: Your test asserts subtotal, discount, tax and total, then the order id in the orders table.
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Step 4Intermediate
TrustBank — transfer with OTP
Pass the two-step login, add a payee in the modal, transfer by IMPS, enter the OTP and reconcile the balance.
Done when: New balance on the receipt equals the old balance minus the amount, and matches the dashboard.
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Step 5Advanced
Two roles in one test
Place an order as demo_user and ship it as admin_user in Nova Shop, then send a ₹30,000 transfer for approval in TrustBank and approve it as the branch manager.
Done when: A single test switches user, and the first user sees the status the second user set.
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Step 6Advanced
ShowTime — seats, timers and OTP
Pick seats on the live seat map, mock the clock to expire the 5-minute hold, then book again and pay with an OTP.
Done when: The hold-expiry test runs in seconds because it controls the clock instead of waiting.
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Step 7Intermediate
Tricky elements
Shadow DOM, iframes, alerts, new windows, drag and drop, uploads and dynamic IDs — one small page each.
Done when: A passing test for at least one challenge in every category.
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Step 8Advanced
Find the seeded bugs
Sign in to Nova Shop as buggy_user and to TrustBank with the buggy build's customer ID. Each has five defects on purpose — write the tests that catch them.
Done when: Five failing assertions per app that pass again for the normal user.
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Step 9Advanced
Check the UI against the API
Ask the shop API for a quote and the bank API to validate a transfer, then assert the UI shows exactly the same numbers and messages.
Done when: A hybrid test that fails if the UI and API ever disagree.
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Step 10Beginner
Explain what you built
Turn your suite into interview answers: framework design, waits, locators, flaky tests and CI.
Done when: You can walk through one of your tests and explain every design choice.