Introduction to Selenium

 

INTRODUCTION

• Selenium is Open-source test automation software.
• With selenium web driver, anything on the web can be automated.
• Selenium web driver, Selenium IDE, and Selenium grid are key components of selenium.
• It is only used for testing web applications.
• It works with a variety of browsers. With the use of various browser drivers, a single script can be written once and executed on a variety of browsers. For instance, use Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, or Opera.
• Numerous operating systems are supported by Selenium. For example, Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
• Selenium Several programming languages are supported. Ruby, JavaScript, Python, C#, etc. are a few examples.

Selenium IDE:

Selenium IDE is a record and playback tool with low usage due to its limited flexibility.

Selenium Web driver:

The Selenium web driver gives you access to more powerful programming languages so you may use them and customize how your framework functions. complicated scripts can also be handled by it. Selenium Web driver is actually a REST API as it can get/post request based on instructions in JSON file.

Selenium Grid

When you wish to distribute your test cases across several computers and the browser, use the Selenium grid.