Selenium WebDriver 3.0

Introduction to Selenium:

• What is Selenium?
• Selenium Features
• Selenium IDE
• Selenium WebDriver
• Selenium RC
• Selenium Grid
• Selenium IDE vs. WebDriver vs. Grid

What is Selenium?

• Selenium is a very powerful automation testing tool for web applications.
• Any web based tasks can also be automated.
• Selenium is composed of following main components and each one has its own specific functionality.
• Selenium IDE
• Selenium RC
• Selenium WebDriver
• Selenium Grid
• Selenium will not able to automate desktop applications or windows applications but we can sikuli and AutoIT API to automate windows applications.

Selenium Features:

• Open source and free (All Selenium Components)
• Record & Playback feature (Selenium IDE)
• Can run tests on multiple browsers (Selenium RC and WebDriver)
• Can run tests on multiple operating systems (Selenium RC and WebDriver)
• Supports multiple languages (Selenium RC and WebDriver)
• Can use with a numbers of testing framework (Selenium RC and WebDriver)
• Distributed and parallel running of tests (Selenium Grid)
• Selenium automation is independent of the language in which you have developed your web application (All Selenium Components)
• Add your custom functionality by using user extensions (Selenium IDE)
• Customize/enhance source code to suite your requirements (All Selenium Components)

Selenium IDE vs. WebDriver vs. Grid

Functionality	IDE	WebDriver	Grid
Record and playback test cases	Supports	-	-
Runs tests on multiple browsers	-	Supports	-
Run tests on multiple operating systems	-	supports	-
Perform complete Web automation	-	supports	-
Distribute and parallel running of tests	-	-	supports
Add your custom functionality	Supports	supports	supports