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Cruxes of Selenium - Selenium Basics - Selenium for Beginners

Selenium is a suite of several automated testing tools, each of them catering to different testing needs. Basics and advantages of Selenium - All these tools fall under the same umbrella of open source category and supports only web based testing. Selenium suite is comprised of 4 basic components; Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, WebDriver, SeleniumGrid. User is expected to choose wisely the right Selenium tool for his/her needs - Here is the Good News for Selenium Testers . Selenium IDE is distributed as a Firefox plug-in. It is easier to install and use. User is not required to possess prior programming knowledge. Selenium IDE is an ideal tool for a naive user. Selenium RC is a server that allows user to create test scripts in a desired programming language. It also allows executing test scripts within the large spectrum of browsers. " Top 4 Difference between Selenium RC & WebDriver " Selenium Grid brings out an additional feature to Selenium RC by distribut...

Why Selenium is used widely for test automation ?

As far as the software industry is concerned, after any product arrives at the manual testing stage , almost all the organizations consider automated testing to cut down on the cost that manual testing involves. For any project, companies are rapidly inclining towards open source automated testing tools rather than investing in commercial testing tools which come at a high price. With no investment for licensing, open source testing instruments come with significant features that enable the convenient automation of testing of web portals and software applications. Selenium is by far one of the most popular automated testing tools for websites . With the passage of time, Selenium is becoming more and more popular and it is the most preferred choice of organizations and automation testers for automated testing of web applications, applicable for the functionality as well as the GUI. Why Selenium? Selenium is probably the best option for automated testing of Websites toda...

Good news for Software Testers

Here are some of the latest Testing and IT news from technical reporters – IT managers consortium has agreed that software testers would  no longer be blamed  for a production defects. Though they are yet to find some one who they could put blame on (Johny the developer is said to be already suffering from ProductionDefectoPhobia) Consortium has also agreed on having salary of software testers on par with  software developer at least by 2020 . There was an unanimous decision on increasing management salary by 23% from immediate effect Consortium has barred developed from using phrase “It works locally”. Violation of this rule would attract 1 night out in office. Continuous violation would attract  exponential salary deductions Complete Topics to be a Professional Selenium Tester   —   Selenium Concepts Speak and Automate   —   New era in automated testing . Voice Automation tool for web and windows application was released yesterday. This to...