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I dont have any coding experience and right now i am in the field of Manual testing , I have to learn Testing Automation . Now what basics for which language i have to start working on?

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  • This is a very broad question. It's like asking how do I test. There are a lot of such questions on SQA. Please explore them first.
    – demouser123
    Commented Nov 2, 2015 at 7:19
  • Python is widely considered best language for beginners, and has plenty of free learning resources and good Selenium bindings.
    – Peter M. - stands for Monica
    Commented Nov 2, 2015 at 13:58

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@nikzz_0402 You need to look within the company what kind of project they have. Also ask developers view on it- what kind of automation they want for project. More then that consider Mike Cohn automation pyramid

enter image description here Now according to project you can investigate automation possibilities, tools and you also get to know what programming languages you need to learn.

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I think you should start to learn programming language JAVA if you are thinking to move for web application automation testing.

For functional automation testing Selenium webdriver is best to start , Please have a look with following for more details :

1 - Download Selenium

2 - Selenium & Java tutorials

Selenium supports many other programming languages like Python, Perl, Ruby, php, c#. so you can start to learn any of these to work in automation testing. Java is just my suggestion.

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This is depends on What your company is doing / Where you are going to use Test Automation . If you are planning to use The test automation at work , it would be wise to learn the technologies your company planned to use . If this is for you own I would like to suggest below

01) Selenium - For Web Automation

02) Test Stack White - For Windows Desktop Application Automation

03) Appium - For Mobile Testing

All these 3 technologies are Free and Generic so that can be used for creating any advance testing framework also good for learning compared to Easy-to-use tools . 02) Technology Requires knowledge in c# , and both Selenium and Appium can be use with c# . So if you are planning to Test Stack White as well Learning C# would be ideal . Otherwise Java also a good choice

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  • My company working on PHP language only so is it ok? , that I learn JAVA or C# for automation . i dont have idea how this 2 language integrate with each other !!
    – nikzz_0402
    Commented Nov 2, 2015 at 9:46
  • If you've read about black box testing, we don't need to interact with the inlying code. So it doesn't matter whether the company works on PHP, Java, Ruby.
    – demouser123
    Commented Nov 2, 2015 at 14:28
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    Theoretically Black Box testing does not depends on the technologies what applications written with . But for practical reasons Test Automation usually follow same technology stacks company uses . As an example if a company build their applications with Open source technologies it may not have windows , visual studio license and CI will be much easier if automation follows same technology stack . Choosing Java or C# can be done as per the requirement
    – DasunB
    Commented Nov 4, 2015 at 4:37
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Web test automation: Sahi * Don't need to have programming language knowledge in depths. * Use only java-scripts language( can do with Java also).

On negative side, its bit tricky on setting up. So if you need help on this can provide.

Desktop application: AutoIT

This is great tool but its complex in scripting.

............ Thanks Dev

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