Core Java for Automation Testers
Strengthen the OOP, collections, exception handling, and coding skills behind effective automation.
Who this is planned for
Manual testers and early-career automation engineers building a Java foundation.
Suggested starting point
No prior Java required; familiarity with testing concepts is helpful.
Proposed curriculum
Planned topics
This outline is provisional and may change before launch.
- 01
Java fundamentals
Types, operators, control flow, methods and debugging.
- 02
Object-oriented design
Classes, encapsulation, interfaces, inheritance and composition.
- 03
Strings and arrays
Common transformations, traversal and edge-case handling.
- 04
Collections and generics
Lists, sets, maps, iteration and choosing appropriate structures.
- 05
Exceptions and file handling
Failure handling, resource cleanup and reading test data.
- 06
Practical coding
Small test utilities, unit tests and interview problem decomposition.
Skills to build
Planned learning outcomes
- Write and debug small Java programs.
- Apply interfaces and composition to test utilities.
- Choose collections for common automation data tasks.
- Handle errors and explain solutions with concrete edge cases.