Selenium Automation Tool

Sachin Kumar

Project Manager - Testing, Corbus

Sachin is PMP Certified and has a total experience of 11 Years in the field of Software Testing. ... more>>

Selenium is one of the very powerful open source automation tool for doing web site automation. In this series I will talk mainly about:

• Selenium Overview
• Installation of Selenium IDE
• Selenium IDE Features - File Menu

Selenium

Selenium is a set of tools that help in the rapid development of test script for web-based application. The Test Script written in Selenium runs in many browsers, operating systems and the script, framework can be written in many programming languages such as C#, Java, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python etc. Some of the tools which will be part of your test scripting are:

• Selenium IDE
• Selenium Remote Control or Selenium RC
• Selenium Grid

I will touch base with RC and Grid in my next series.

Installation of IDE

The Selenium IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is the tool you are going to use to develop your Selenium Test Cases. Its an easy-to-use Firefox plug-in and is generally the most efficient way to develop the test cases. Please see the pre-requisite for the IDE:

Browser - Firefox 2+
OS - WinXP and above
H/w - Standard machine with latest processor and RAM.

Step 1 - Install Firefox, if not available (go to site http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ or google it) - Skip Step 1, if Firefox is already installed on your machine.

Step 2
• Launch Firefox
• Navigate to http://www.seleniumhq.org/download
• Click the download link corresponding to "Selenium IDE"

Step 3 - Click Allow, if you see an Yellow bar on the top.

Step 4 - Now Firefox will start downloading the Selenium IDE and you will see below screen. Select Install Now.

Step 5 - Firefox add-ons windows pops-up, first displaying the installation progress and when installation completes, ask for Firefox restart to complete the installation. See below:

Step 6 - After you restarted the Firefox, go to Tools -> Look for Selenium IDE option - You are now done with your installation.
Next I will describe more about Selenium IDE features available in Menu, Toolbar etc.

You can launch Selenium IDE through Firefox, Tools menu. As soon as you start Selenium IDE, you will see below screen:

In this series, let start with various sub-items under File Menu:

Business	Technology
Enterprise	Gadgets
Startups	Finance
US-Indian	Career
Magazines	Newsletters

Members	Blogs
Mentorship	Indian Entrepreneurs
Gyan	Advice
My Story

CXO	Technology
Entrepreneurship	Strategy

MBA	MCA
Engineering	Training Institutes
Online Courses	AIBIC
Mobile Apps Training	Online Summer Courses
Medical Institute	Overseas Education

CEO	Startup	Mobile
CIO	Women Leadership	Biz Intelligence
HR	SME	Cloud Computing
Marketing	Embedded	QA/Testing
IT Manager	Dot Net	Java
		Web Developer

Jobs	Freshers Jobs
Companies	HR Speak
Forum	Job Fair
Career News	US Job Fair

Real Estate	Travel
Finance	Gadgets
Products	Movie Reviews
Jokes	Videos
Cars

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Selenium Automation Tool