Selenium Introduction
Selenium Introduction
Selenium Introduction
Selenium IDE
Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a Firefox
plugin that lets testers to record their actions as they follow the
workflow that they need to test.
Selenium RC
Selenium Remote Control (RC) was the flagship testing
framework that allowed more than simple browser actions and
linear execution. It makes use of the full power of programming
languages such as Java, C#, PHP, Python, Ruby and PERL to
create more complex tests.
Selenium WebDriver
Selenium WebDriver is the successor to Selenium RC which
sends commands directly to the browser and retrieves results.
Selenium Grid
Selenium Grid is a tool used to run parallel tests across different
machines and different browsers simultaneously which results in
minimized execution time.
INTRODUCTION TO SELENIUM
Advantages of using Selenium
Selenium is an open-source tool.
Selenium can be extended for various technologies that expose
DOM.
It can execute scripts across different browsers and Can execute
scripts on various operating systems.
It also supports mobile devices.
Selenium executes tests within the browser, so focus is NOT
required while script execution is in progress.