Which Selenium component is used for Distributed Testing?

• a) Selenium Grid
• b) Selenium RC
• c) Selenium IDE
• d) Selenium WebDriver

 

Explanation

Correct Answer: a) Selenium Grid

Selenium Grid is specifically designed for distributed testing, allowing you to run tests across multiple machines, browsers, and operating systems in parallel. It uses a hub-and-node architecture to distribute test execution.

Incorrect Answers

• Selenium RC (Remote Control) is deprecated and was replaced by WebDriver.
• Selenium IDE is a record-and-playback tool for creating simple test scripts. This tool is a browser plugin for browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, etc.
• Selenium WebDriver is used for writing automated test scripts but does not handle distributed testing on its own.