Selenium Class 2: Introduction to Selenium part2

Introducation to Selenium part2

4) Selenium Supporting Environments

a) Operating Environment

MS Windows

Linux

Apple OX

b) Application Environment

i) CUI based - Selenium doesn't support.

ii) Windows based-Selenium doesn't support.

iii) Web based- Selenium supports.

iv) Mobile based- Supports Mobile Applications which have Web forms.

c) Programming Environment

Java

C#

Python

Perl

Ruby

PHP

Note: Selenium IDE doesn't support any programming language.

d) Browser Environment

Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox

IE

Safari

Opera etc...

Note: Selenium IDE supports Firefox, chrome Browser only.
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5) Selenium License

All Selenium Projects released under the Apache 2.0 License

- Anybody can download and use all Selenium projects with free of cost.

- Anybody can modify the source code and distribute the source code

Selling modified code is not allowed.
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6) Testing Frameworks and Other tools used in Selenium

Testing Frameworks

JUnit Framework

TestNG Framework

Eclipse IDE -

- To create and execute Java programs,

- Add Selenium WebDriver .jar files to Java project and use Webdriver features.

- Install TestNG/JUnit Testing Frameworks
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Firebug and Firepath plug ins (Mozilla Firefox) for inspecting elements in Firefox browser.

Note: Google Chrome and IE browsers have built Developer tools (F12) to inspect elements.

Browser Drivers for Cross Browser Testing

For Google Chrome, IE etc... Browsers, download Browser drivers and set driver path in test scripts.
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7) Selenium Environment Setup

Choose Selenium Tools

Selenium WebDriver to create Test cases.

Java as Programming Language

TestNG Framework as Test Runner.

Firebug and Firepath plug in for Mozilla browser to inspect Elements.

Browser Drivers etc...

Configure Selenium:

- Download Eclipse IDE and extract

- Download Java software and Install.

- Set Environment variable (Path variable).

- Download Selenium WebDriver java language binding (seleniumhq.org) and add
WebDriver jar file to Java project in Eclipse IDE.

- Download and install Firebug and Firepath from Mozilla browser to inspect elements.

- Download IE, Chrome etc... Browser drivers.

- Download and install TestNG Testing Framework from Eclipse IDE
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8) Advantages of Selenium

i) It is an Open source Software.

ii) It supports various Operating environments (Windows, Linux, Mac etc...)

iii) It supports various browsers (IE, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, safari, Opera etc...)

iv) It supports various programming environments (Java, Perl, Python, Ruby and PHP)

v) It supports parallel Test execution.

vi) It uses less Hardware resources.
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9) Disadvantages of Selenium

i) It supports Web based Applications only.

ii) No reliable support from anybody.

iii) No centralized maintenance of Elements/objects

iv) Difficult to setup environment.

v) Difficult to use.

vi) Limited support for Image based testing.

vii) New features may not work properly.

viii) No other tool integration for test management.

ix) No built in Reporting facility.
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