Understanding Selenium

In this section, we will be understanding selenium. Therefore, let’s begin.

Selenium is a set of different software tools each with a different approach to supporting test automation. Most Selenium QA Engineers focus on one or two tools that most meet the needs of their project. However, learning all the tools will give you many different options for approaching different test automation problems. Moreover, These operations are highly flexible, allowing many options for locating UI elements and comparing expected test results against actual application behavior.

In this section, we will be understanding selenium. Therefore, let’s begin.

Selenium is a set of different software tools each with a different approach to supporting test automation. Most Selenium QA Engineers focus on one or two tools that most meet the needs of their project. Moreover, these operations are highly flexible, allowing many options for locating UI elements and comparing expected test results against actual application behavior.

Selenium’s Tool Suite

Selenium comprises of multiple software tools.

Selenium 2: Selenium 2 is the future direction of the project and the newest addition to the Selenium toolkit. This brand new automation tool provides all sorts of awesome features, including a more cohesive and objects oriented API as well as an answer to the limitations of the old implementation.

Selenium 1: Selenium RC was the main Selenium project for a long time, before the WebDriver/Selenium merge brought up Selenium 2, the newest and more powerful tool.

Selenium IDE: Selenium IDE is a prototyping tool for building test scripts. It is a Firefox plug-in and provides an easy-to-use interface for developing automated tests.

Selenium-Grid: Selenium-Grid allows the Selenium RC solution to scale for large test suites and for test suites that must be run in multiple environments. Selenium Grid allows you to run tests in parallel, that is, different tests can be run at the same time on different remote machines.