Selenium is one of the most powerful open source browser automation tool available in the market to the date. Selenium is not a single tool but a suite of tools which actually evolved with time.
The Selenium tool suite comprises of
1. Selenium IDE : A Firefox Plug-in to record and play tests (Other platforms are not supported as of now)
2. Selenium Remote Control : Allows exporting of test suites across different OS/platforms
3. Selenium Grid: Allows control to many Selenium Machines.
Why Selenium?
Selenium is mostly useful if you want to
· Create scripts to reproduce bugs
· Create scripts which help in automated exploratory testing
· Create robust and browser based regression test suite.
· Create and use scripts across multiple environments.
Installing Selenium IDE:
1. Get Firefox browser: To work with Selenium IDE, you need Firefox browser, if you don’t have that , you can download it from http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
2. Install Selenium IDE Plug-in: You can get the Selenium IDE pug-n from the link http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/. Download the latest version available.
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| Download Latest Version (Here 2.4.0) |
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| Allow Firefox to Download |
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| Install add-ons |
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| Once Installed , restart your browser |
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| Now, Navigate to FireFox/Web Developer/Selenium IDE to launch the tool. |
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| Your Tool is Up & Running. |
3. Extra Add-ons (Will be Explained later): Firebug .
Next we will record our first Selenium Script.
Fun Fact: Selenium git its name as it was one of the competitor to Mercury’s QTP. And in Elemental Science, you know Selenium (Se) removes Mercury (Hg) from body, Hence the name.
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