Monday, June 23, 2008

Selenium Syringe For QA Engineers

Feeling depressed of not automating tests?
Did not find a tool to automate?
Found it, but again its not free?
Almost fainted running UI tests manually?

If Yes,
Its time to move now, Let me inject some Selenium in you :)

Selenium is one cool tool use to automate web testing and more!!!
Selenium comes in various forms.

1.Selenium IDE:
IDE is smart, it comes in as Firefox extension.
Using IDE You can quickly record you action and play them back.
A must if your a beginner, You can export captured actions in various languages.
Download and try it yourself from http://selenium-ide.openqa.org/

2.Selenium RC:
It really lives its name remote control.
It allows you to write UI test in any programming language( Ruby, Perl, Python, JavaScript etc)
It comes with a server which is interpreter between you script and browser.

RC consists of two parts
1.Selenium Server.
2.Client library.

For more info and for download check http://selenium-rc.openqa.org/

3.Selenium Grid:
Tired of waiting for those long lasting tests to end !!
Now you can fast forward them using Selenium grid.

For more info and for download check http://selenium-grid.openqa.org/

Tushar Murudkar

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Selenium is good, but it needs to support java applets, flash ...

Anonymous said...

Selenium does not differentiate between its own failure and test failure.. Error handling has to be better is Selenium has to travel a distance