What Is Selenium?

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What Is Selenium?
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Often, one may hear the word selenium from the
IT specialists mouth. But how does selenium, the
chemical element of the periodic system, touch
the software product development cycle?
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No way. As Selenium is a tool for automated
testing of the software products, it is the
common-use software. And why exactly selenium,
lets say, not bromine or potassium? We will
speak about it a little later.
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Frequently, web application testing takes much
time as there is a range of different browsers
and their versions, one should concern the
networking type, platform peculiarities, and so
on.
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The manual coverage of all these product function
aspects by the test cases is out of sense since
it needs to perform cross-browser testing,
localization testing, compatibility testing, and
a set of other checking types which require time
and money.
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What Are the Selenium Components?

• Integrated Development Environment (Selenium IDE)
• Remote control (Selenium RC)
• WebDriver
• Selenium Grid

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Nowadays Selenium RC and WebDriver have
consolidated to the framework Selenium 2. By the
way, Selenium 1 is the part of the Selenium
RC. Software testing just needs such tools and,
fortunately, a lot of them are developed.
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