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Testing is a crucial part of the Software
development life cycle. It is carried out in
order to find bugs in the developed product
before it reaches the customer. In order to
simplify the process, there are various ways that
have been launched. Testing can be carried out
using automation tools. One such Important tool
is Selenium which is used to carry out end to end
testing through automation. The basic language
used to automate this tool is Java. There are
various other automation tools such as Appium and
HPs QTP. These tools are used to test Desktop
and mobile applications whereas web applications
require a tool like Selenium. Advantages of
Selenium as an automation tool The tool helps in
testing the application with least time
consumption It is an open source which needs
Java knowledge The testing done using selenium
gives the most accurate results It works on all
the browsers such as FireFox, Chrome, Opera and
many Others
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Advances in Selenium There are various advances
in selenium that have been made such as Selenium
IDE, Selenium Remote Control , Selenium Web
driver and Selenium Grid. All these versions have
come into existence in order to overcome the
shortcoming faced by the users. Although selenium
has a few disadvantages when compared to other
automation tools, it is still considered to be
the best due to its flexibility. When should I
use Selenium IDE? Selenium IDE allows users to
edit, record and debug the tests. The main
purpose to create Selenium IDE is to increase
the speed of test case creation. It helps the
users to take record quickly and play back tests
in the actual environment that will run in. The
interface supports multiple extensions and it is
user-friendly.
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• When should I use a Selenium Webdriver?
• Selenium Web driver allows users to work in
  Chrome, IE, Opera, Firefox, Safari and many other
  browsers.
• It is an open source, multiple language supports
  like Python, PHP, Java, C, Ruby, JavaScript,
  etc. Although it has a customized script
  language.
• It works across multiple OS and Cross browser
  compatibility. It supports Multiple Frameworks
  like Ant, Maven, TestNG.
• A major benefit of automation testing with
  Selenium WebDriver is that you dont need to
  start any server prior to testing.
• How do I check the selenium version?
• Open TOOLS menu.
• Open NuGet Package Manager.
• Manage NuGet Packages for Solution.
• Click on the INSTALLED tab.
• Scroll down to Selenium. WebDriver.
• Version is on the right.

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Latest version in Selenium Selenium has come a
long way and the latest version is the Selenium
4.0 Alpha. This is the recently updated version
which has proved to be beneficial to testers. The
major changes made in Selenium Alpha 4 version is
as follows Selenium 4 IDE TNG Selenium IDE is a
record and playback feature which was not
available for chrome but is available now.a
plugin will allow you to run Selenium on any
browser. Also, a user can now declare their own
locator strategy. There is also a new CLI runner
which is based on Node JS, instead of the old
HTML based CLI runner.It has the ability to
execute test cases in parallel and provide
information like passed and failed test cases,
the time required, etc. Impacts of Selenium
4.0? In addition to these new capabilities,
arriving of Selenium 4 may require few changes in
your existing selenium 2.X/3.X
tests, The getPosition getSize methods were repl
aced by the getRect method and the setPosition s
etSize methods were replaced by setRect
methods. Now you can configure the location of
your Safari driver using the webdriver.safari.dri
ver system property. Element screenshotting is
possible in Selenium 4.
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