Getting Started
Selenium WebDriver is a popular open-source web application automation tool. Selenium is used as a functional automation tool to automate web application testing. It provides tools and APIs that allow developers and testers to simulate user interactions, validate functionality, and perform various web application testing tasks.
What is Selenium?
Selenium is an open-source automation tool that allows developers and testers to automate web browsers. It enables easy testing and controlling of web applications, thus allowing web application automation.
Multiple Languages
Selenium supports multiple programming languages, including Java, Python, C#, Ruby, etc. This means you can choose the most comfortable language when writing your automation scripts.
Multiple Web browsers
Selenium also allows you to run your tests on multiple browsers, such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer. This ensures that your web application is consistent and functions properly across different browsers.
What is Selenium WebDriver?
Selenium WebDriver provides a programming interface for controlling web browsers. It supports various browsers, such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Safari, and Opera.
Selenium WebDriver is a crucial component of Selenium. It provides a programming interface to interact with web browsers. With Selenium WebDriver, you can perform actions like clicking elements, typing text, extracting text, etc. It enables the testing team to automate browser actions and interact with the web elements as if they were real users. It communicates directly with the web browser using the browser’s native support for automation.
Selenium Components
Selenium has the ability to handle various web elements such as dropdowns, checkboxes, buttons, and text boxes. It also supports handling JavaScript pop-ups and handling different types of alerts.
Taking Screenshot
To get started, let’s use this article to demonstrate a specifically customized screenshot capture feature in the TestNG Automation framework. An awesome capability is to capture screenshots when an Assert fails with the TestNG Framework. In the Assert lifecycle, you can write custom assertions in TestNG by overriding the onAssertFailure() method.
Selenium Grid 3.0
We can use the Selenium grid for distributed testing. A distributed test distributes tests across multiple physical and/or VM’s so that tests can run in parallel. Distribution of tests cuts down the time required for running tests.
Run Grid in Background on Linux
Run Selenium Grid in Background on Linux
Selenium Grid 4.0
Running Tests
Cloud Tests
Running Tests on BrowserStack
BrowserStack is a live cloud-based browser testing on real desktop and mobile browsers. You can say goodbye to your lab devices and virtual machines if you use BrowserStack.
Docker Images