Selenium RC API MindMap

Selenium-RC

Selenium-RC is the solution for tests that need more than simple browser actions and linear

execution.

Selenium-RC uses the full power of programming languages to create more complex tests like

reading and writing files, querying a database, emailing test results.

You can use Selenium-RC whenever your test requires logic not supported by Selenium-

IDE.

What logic could this be? For example, Selenium-IDE does not directly support:

• condition statements

• iteration

• logging and reporting of test results

• error handling, particularly unexpected errors

• database testing

• test case grouping

• re-execution of failed tests

• test case dependency

• screenshot capture of test failures

Although these tasks are not supported by Selenium directly, all of them can be achieved by

using programming techniques with a language-specific Selenium-RC client library.

Platforms Supported by Selenium RC

• Browsers

– Firefox, IE, Safari and Opera etc..

• Operating Systems

– Windows, OS X, Linux, and Solaris

• Programming Languages

– C#, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby

• Testing Frameworks

– Bromine, JUnit & TenstNG (Java), NUnit (.Net), RSpec & Test:Unit (Ruby), Unittest (Python)

Selenium IDE

Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the simplest framework in the Selenium suite and is the easiest one to learn. It is a Firefox plugin that you can install as easily as you can with other plugins. However, because of its simplicity, Selenium IDE should only be used as a prototyping tool. If you want to create more advanced test cases, you will need to use either Selenium RC or WebDriver.

Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the simplest framework in the Selenium suite and is the easiest one to learn. It is a Firefox plugin that you can install as easily as you can with other plugins. However, because of its simplicity, Selenium IDE should only be used as a prototyping tool. If you want to create more advanced test cases, you will need to use either Selenium RC or WebDriver.
Read more at http://www.guru99.com/introduction-to-selenium.html#708KkSqlp86jVwYr.99

Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the simplest framework in the Selenium suite and is the easiest one to learn. It is a Firefox plugin that you can install as easily as you can with other plugins. However, because of its simplicity, Selenium IDE should only be used as a prototyping tool. If you want to create more advanced test cases, you will need to use either Selenium RC or WebDriver.
Read more at http://www.guru99.com/introduction-to-selenium.html#708KkSqlp86jVwYr.99

Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the simplest framework in the Selenium suite and is the easiest one to learn. It is a Firefox plugin that you can install as easily as you can with other plugins. However, because of its simplicity, Selenium IDE should only be used as a prototyping tool. If you want to create more advanced test cases, you will need to use either Selenium RC or WebDriver.
Read more at http://www.guru99.com/introduction-to-selenium.html#708KkSqlp86jVwYr.99

Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the simplest framework in the Selenium suite and is the easiest one to learn. It is a Firefox plugin that you can install as easily as you can with other plugins. However, because of its simplicity, Selenium IDE should only be used as a prototyping tool. If you want to create more advanced test cases, you will need to use either Selenium RC or WebDriver.
Read more at http://www.guru99.com/introduction-to-selenium.html#708KkSqlp86jVwYr.99

Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the simplest framework in the Selenium suite and is the easiest one to learn. It is a Firefox plugin that you can install as easily as you can with other plugins. However, because of its simplicity, Selenium IDE should only be used as a prototyping tool. If you want to create more advanced test cases, you will need to use either Selenium RC or WebDriver.
Read more at http://www.guru99.com/introduction-to-selenium.html#708KkSqlp86jVwYr.99

Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the simplest framework in the Selenium suite and is the easiest one to learn. It is a Firefox plugin that you can install as easily as you can with other plugins. However, because of its simplicity, Selenium IDE should only be used as a prototyping tool. If you want to create more advanced test cases, you will need to use either Selenium RC or WebDriver.
Read more at http://www.guru99.com/introduction-to-selenium.html#708KkSqlp86jVwYr.99

Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the simplest framework in the Selenium suite and is the easiest one to learn. It is a Firefox plugin that you can install as easily as you can with other plugins. However, because of its simplicity, Selenium IDE should only be used as a prototyping tool. If you want to create more advanced test cases, you will need to use either Selenium RC or WebDriver.
Read more at http://www.guru99.com/introduction-to-selenium.html#708KkSqlp86jVwYr.99

Selenium

Selenium is a web application test automation tool which provides many features and a wide

range of support which makes it an instant choice for automating most of the web applications.

Selenium provides the automation engineer the choice of running the automation scripts in a

wide range of browsers and with the language support it has, on wide range of operating systems too.

But there are certain things the automation engineer needs to be aware of before he jumps into understanding selenium. The automation engineer needs to have a basic knowledge of the following things:

1. HTML

2. XML

3. Xpath

4. Document Object Model(DOM)

5. JavaScript (only a basic knowledge on how events are triggered etc.)

6. Any one of the following language to build a full-fledged test suite – Perl, Python, Ruby,

Java, C#, PHP.

7. Basic object oriented programming concepts.

History of Selenium

• In 2004 invented by Jason R. Huggins and team.

• Original name is JavaScript Functional Tester [JSFT]

• Open source browser based integration test framework built originally by Thoughtworks.

• 100% JavaScript and HTML

• Web testing tool

• That supports testing Web 2.0 applications

• Supports for Cross-Browser Testing(ON Multiple Browsers)

• And multiple Operating Systems

• Cross browser – IE 6/7, Firefox .8+, Opera, Safari 2.0+

To Automate or Not to Automate? That is the Question!

Is automation always advantageous? When should one decide to automate test cases?

It is not always advantageous to automate test cases. There are times when manual testing may be more appropriate. For instance, if the application’s user interface will change considerably in the near future, then any automation would need to be rewritten. Also, sometimes there simply is not enough time to build test automation. For the short term, manual testing may be more effective. If an application has a very tight deadline, there is currently no test automation available, and it’s imperative that the testing get done within that time frame, then manual testing is the best solution.

However, automation has specific advantages for improving the long-term efficiency of a software team’s testing processes. Test automation supports:
• Frequent regression testing
• Rapid feedback to developers during the development process
• Virtually unlimited iterations of test case execution
• Customized reporting of application defects
• Support for Agile and extreme development methodologies
• Disciplined documentation of test cases
• Finding defects missed by manual testing