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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...