1.3: Selenium Components / Selenium’s Tool Suite

Selenium Components / Selenium’s Tool Suite

a. Selenium IDE
b. Selenium RC
c. Selenium WebDriver
d. Selenium Grid

a. Selenium IDE:

1. It is a browser plugin (Firefox and Chrome) and prototype tool

2. It is used to create and execute test cases

3. User can edit test scripts (Add/Update/Delete...)

4. Using Recording we can create Test cases or manually type test cases

5. User can create test suites

6. user can debug test cases and add comments

7. Using Element Locators and Selenese Commands we can create test cases

Drawbacks of Selenium IDE:

1. It doesn't support programming to enhance test cases, so it is not suitable for complex test design

2. It doesn't support Parameterization/Data Driven Testing

3. No centralized Repository for Objects/elements

4. it doesn't support detailed test reports

5. It doesn't support all popular browsers

** b. Selenium RC - Out dated

c) Selenium WebDriver

1) Selenium WebDriver doesn't have IDE, only Programming Interface

Selenium IDE has IDE but no programming
Selenium WebDriver has no IDE, having Programming Interface
UFT has both IDE as well as programming Interface

2) Selenium WebDriver is used to create and execute test cases/test scripts

3) Using element locators and WebDriver API commands we can create Test Cases

4) Selenium WebDriver supports various Operating environments, browsers and programming languages

5) Selenium WebDriver supports Batch Testing, Data Driven Testing, Cross Browser testing and Database testing.

Drawbacks:

1) It doesn't have IDE....

2) No built-in Object Repository facility

3) No built-in Result Report facility

4) No Other Tool integration for Test management

5) Difficult to configure Test Environment

d. Selenium Grid

1) Selenium Grid is only for Test Execution

2) Selenium Grid supports Parallel Testing.