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)