Selenium Overview By QuontraSolutions

1
info_at_quontrasolutions.co.uk
Selenium-Testing Tool
Contact44(0)-20-3734-1498 www.quontrasolution
s.co.uk
2
info_at_quontrasolutions.co.uk
What is Selenium?

• Selenium is a robust set of tools that supports
  rapid development
• of test automation for web-based
  applications.
• Works anywhere JavaScript is supported
• Hooks for many other languages - Java, Ruby,
  Python
• Can simulate a user navigating through pages and
  then assert for
• specific marks on the pages
• All you need to really know is HTML to start
  using it right away

Contact 44(0)-20-3734-1498
www.quontrasolutions.co.uk
3
info_at_quontrasolutions.co.uk
  FEATURES OF SELENIUM

• Selenium is a Functional Automation tool for Web
  applications.
• Selenium is an open source tool (No cost Involved
  in it).
• Selenium supports the languages like HTML, Java,
  PHP, Perl, Python,
• Ruby and C.
• It supports the browsers like IE, Mozilla
  Firefox, Safari, Google
• Chrome and Opera.
• It supports the operating systems like Windows,
  Linux and Mac.
• It is very flexible when compared to QTP and
  other functional tools,
• because it supports multiple languages.

Contact 44(0)-20-3734-1498
www.quontrasolutions.co.uk
4
info_at_quontrasolutions.co.uk
Where to get it?

• You can use Selenium-Core and customize
  everything deprecated.
• But it is easier to just get a Firefox plug-in
  Selenium-IDE
• that helps you record test Cases.
• You can record how an app is being used and then
  playback those
• recordings followed by asserts.

Contact 44(0)-20-3734-1498
www.quontrasolutions.co.uk
5
info_at_quontrasolutions.co.uk
COMPONETS OF SELENIUM
Selenium is mainly built on 3 components.
1. Selenium IDE 2. Selenium RC 3.
Selenium Grid
Contact 44(0)-20-3734-1498
www.quontrasolutions.co.uk
6
info_at_quontrasolutions.co.uk
SELENIUM IDE

• IDE stands for Integrated Development
  Environment.
• Which is used for Record and Play back the
  scripts.
• It is an Add on for Mozilla Firefox, which means
  we can download the
• Selenium IDE from Mozilla Firefox and we can
  Record and Run the
• scripts in Mozilla Firefox only.
• Selenium IDE is accountable for user actions.
• We can Run the Recorded scripts against other
  browsers by using
• Selenium RC.
•  

Contact 44(0)-20-3734-1498
www.quontrasolutions.co.uk
7
info_at_quontrasolutions.co.uk
SELENIUM RC

• RC stands for Remote Control.
• It is a Server and launches the Browser.
• It acts as a API and Library of Selenium.
• We need to configure the Selenium RC with the
  supported
• language, then we can automate the
  application.

Contact 44(0)-20-3734-1498
www.quontrasolutions.co.uk
8
info_at_quontrasolutions.co.uk
SELENIUM GRID

• Selenium Grid is used for launching the multiple
  browsers
• with supported operating system in parallel.
• We can run the scripts on different browsers in
  parallel.
• It allows you to easily run multiple tests in
  parallel, on
• multiple machines, in a heterogeneous
  environment.

Contact 44(0)-20-3734-1498
www.quontrasolutions.co.uk
9
info_at_quontrasolutions.co.uk
TESTING WITH SELENIUM

• We can perform Regression testing with selenium
  by writing
• Reusable Scripts in the form of Functions or
  Methods.
• We can perform Retesting with looping concepts.
• We can validate the application by using
  conditional statements.
• We can perform Database testing.
• Reporting of the test results.
• Error handling, particularly unexpected errors.

Contact 44(0)-20-3734-1498
www.quontrasolutions.co.uk
10
info_at_quontrasolutions.co.uk
Contact 44(0)-20-3734-1498
www.quontrasolutions.co.uk