Selenium Introduction:
Selenium :
Selenium is a Web testing tool. Selenium is a robust set of tools that is used to record and run web applications. There are three components of Selenium. i.e. Selenium is composed of three major tools which has their own specific roles. Selenium is free and open source.
Selenium 2 provides drivers for:
- Mozilla Firefox
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Opera
- Apple iPhone
- Android browsers
Selenium-IDE:
Selenium-IDE is the Integrated Development Environment for building Selenium test cases. It operates as a Firefox add-on.
Advantages of Selenium-IDE:
It is very easy to use. It has record and play feature and we can also write our own extensions and implement loops, if statements, use arrays, parameterize test cases. Selenium-IDE is very user friendly.
Limitation of Selenium-IDE:
It gets installed as an add-on on Mozilla and works only on Mozilla. IDE cannot work on browsers other than Mozilla. That’s why RC or webdriver is used.
Selenium-RC (Remote Control):
Selenium Remote Control (RC) is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language.
Advantages of Selenium-RC:
Selenium Remote Control is great for testing complex AJAX-based web applications. Selenium Remote Control can be used for any java script enabled browser.
Limitation of Selenium-RC:
In RC we have to start the server again and again i.e. RC completely depends upon server. Switching between the multiple instances of the same browser is not possible. Switching between the multiple instances of the different browsers is not possible.
Selenium-Grid:
Selenium Grid is a server that allows tests to use web browser instances running on remote machines. With Selenium Grid, one server acts as the hub.
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