Selenium Remote Control aka Selenium 1.0

Introduction

Selenium RC stands for Selenium Remote Control. Selenium RC is the first Selenium Project and it is also know as Selenium 1.0. Note that Selenium RC is now deprecated.

Selenium Remote Control

Selenium RC client libraries communicate with Selenium RC Server. The server forwards the Selenese commands to browser extension component called as Selenium Core. The Selenium Core executes the Selenium command using JS( JavaScript) interpreter.

Selenium RC Architecture

The Selenium RC server handles the different browsers. It is capable of launching and killing the browser instances. The server acts like proxy between the browser and the application.

We have to start the RC server before running the scripts. Java is a prerequisite and should be installed on the machine to run RC server.

Download the RC server. Open command prompt and run the server The sample command to start the RC Server is shown below:

\> java -jar <selenium-rc-server.jar>

For example, we have to Instantiate the RC server in the Test automation script:

Selenium selenium = new DefaultSelenium( “localhost” , 4444, “*firefox” , “http://www.testingdocs.com/” );
selenium.start();