Selenium is an open source, portable software test application owned by the Apache Software Foundation, the same property that the JMeter tool has designed. Selenium Automation is considered one of the easiest utilities that allow users to record and write test results without mastering a specific programming language. Instead, it makes it easy for testers to get reports on various popular programming scripts, such as C #, JAVA, PHP, Ruby, etc.
Compatibility
The Selenium Automation Utility can be installed on almost all popular operating systems, including Windows, Macintosh, and Linux.
Advantages of Implementing Selenium Automation Testing
It is open source benchmark software that is freely downloadable and deployable from the Internet. Since testing the functionality of a web-based website, application, or program has become very important these days, the operation of free trial tools has become commonplace. The following subsections list some of the best benefits of performing selenium automation testing:
Very flexible – Selenium is a very flexible portable structure. You can add functionalities to your test cases and framework, to customize the tool according to your project, quite easily. You don’t need any special training or living hard to take the test. Its advanced interface guides you in this. And this can be pronounced as the best feature of the Selenium Automation tool.
Cost free – As stated above, Selenium is a free to use, open source software testing tool, which can be downloaded from the World Wide Web. Although, your ownership rights are with ASF, you do not need to buy your license or key to use it. Since it’s free, it reduces your final service charges.
Compatibility – Being a flexible utility, it can be run, as mentioned, on Windows, Linux and Macintosh; and in different web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera. In addition, it allows you to interpret reports in multiple languages. It requires very little effort in generating reports.
Multiple test environments – Selenium allows testers to use a variety of IDEs, integrated development environments, such as Eclipse, Netbeans, and Visual Studio, and many more.
With its capable GUIs and advanced features, testers can use it for seamless integration.
Selenium application components
Selenium IDE – It is a very useful environment, which can be added to a Firefox browser as a complement. The IDE enables testers to record, edit, and debug test cases and reports.
Selenium Client API – Features allow testers to write tests in multiple programming languages.
Selenium RC – Technically, Selenium Remote Control is a JAVA server with which you can write tests in any programming language.
Selenium WD – Selenium Web Driver is the advanced version of RC, which sends the test commands to a browser.