SELENIUM FOUNDATION PROGRAM

Introduction to Selenium-IDE: Selenium integrated development environment ( Selenium-IDE ) is a software automation testing tool used to automate web based applications. Selenium-IDE is one of the simplest and easiest tools that are released as a Firefox plug-in. This tool is simply a record and playback plug-in that allows recording the test scripts. The advantage of Selenium-IDE is that the user is not required to have any prior programming knowledge to record the script. But user should have basic knowledge in understanding HTML, DOMS and JavaScript to create test scripts using this tool. Selenium-IDE supports only Firefox, and all scripts created will be executed only in Firefox browser being a Firefox plug-in, Selenium-IDE supports only Firefox, thus the created test scripts could be executed only on Firefox. Because of few limitations in automating complex test scripts we have other tools like Selenium-RC and Selenium Web...

Selenium foundation program: Before installing Java for Selenium Web-driver framework automation, install Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Run-time Environment (JRE) on your windows computer. Navigate to Oracle Official site here . Click on “Download” button as shown below Click on “Accept License Agreement”, which are displayed upon clicking “Download button. Check your operating system and download the file. (32bit / 64bit)    Quickly run the downloaded installer, which installs both the JDK ( Java Development Kit ) and JRE ( Java Run-time ). Install JDK and by Default Java installs at this place “C:/Program Files/Java”. Java folder contain two folder of name “jdk1.8.0_111” and “jre1.8.0_111” as shown below. Setting up System variables & ClassPath – Follow below screens: Right Click on My Computer. Now click on Advanced System Setting. System Variables setu-p: ClassPath Setu-p: Check the installation using CMD pro...

Introduction In this blog "Selenium Foundation Program", we will talk about selenium web-Driver foundation concepts for automation frameworks and understand " when to use these concepts " and " which type of selenium web-Driver automation framework " to be used, and we will also discuss very basics about selenium IDE and Web-Driver with java code. The main objective of this foundation blog is to help the Selenium automation tester to gain knowledge on Web-Driver skills. Here, we will explain clearly on “ what type of selenium automation framework to be used ” and “ when to use that specific type of selenium automation framework ”. We will also discuss some popular selenium web-driver framework interview questions. What is Selenium API? Selenium API is a free portable and convenient open source automated testing suite for web applications. This is quite similar to HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) only that Selenium focuses on automati...