{"id":760,"date":"2013-01-02T07:31:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T07:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/?p=760"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:13:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T08:43:12","slug":"introducing-selenium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/introducing-selenium\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Selenium | Selenium Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Certified-Selenium-Professional-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Certified-Selenium-Professional-4.png\" alt=\"Selenium Basics\" class=\"wp-image-93289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Certified-Selenium-Professional-4.png 750w, https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Certified-Selenium-Professional-4-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 style=\"color: #030342;\"><strong>Introducing Selenium | Selenium Basics<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #030342;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Selenium Basics<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We can define <strong>selenium<\/strong> as a web Automation tool used to perform testing on Web Applications and not an desktop based application. There are various tools used to automate both web applications and windows applications like <strong>QTP<\/strong> (Quick Test Professional). This is the main reason why most of the companies choose Selenium whenever they want to automate Web applications. The components of Selenium are,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IDE:<\/strong> It is a firefox plug-in which deals with and playback mechanism. User can create simple scripts and export to selenium RC or Webdriver.<\/li>\n<li><strong>RC:<\/strong> It is a tool which allows to automate web application using any of the programming language that supports.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Webdriver:<\/strong> It makes direct calls to the browser using each browser&#8217;s native support for automation.<br \/>Webdriver: It was developed to better support dynamic web pages like Ajax where elements of a page may change without the page itself being reloaded.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grid:<\/strong> It Is a server that allows tests to use web browser instances running on remote machines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a beginner, learning the selenium basics, is not that difficult, just start using <strong>Selenium IDE<\/strong> which is a firefox plug-in, used to record and play the script. <strong>Selenium IDE<\/strong> is just for practice, and you can learn how the commands that are used to run the script in IDE. 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