Day 1: Introduction & Installing Selenium

Selenium is one of the most powerful open source browser automation tool available in the market to the date. Selenium is not a single tool but a suite of tools which actually evolved with time.

The Selenium tool suite comprises of

1.       Selenium IDE : A Firefox Plug-in to record and play tests.

2.       Selenium Remote Control : Allows exporting of test suites across different OS/platforms

3.       Selenium Grid: Allows control to many Selenium Machines.

Why Selenium?

Selenium is mostly useful if you want to

·         Create scripts to reproduce bugs

·         Create scripts which help in automated exploratory testing

·         Create robust and browser based regression test suite.

·         Create and use scripts across multiple environments.

Installing Selenium IDE:

1.       Get Firefox browser: To work with Selenium IDE, you need Firefox browser, if you don’t have that , you can download it from http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

2.       Install Selenium IDE Plug-in:  You can get the Selenium IDE pug-n from the link http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/. Download the latest version available.

Download Latest Version (Here 2.4.0)

Allow Firefox to Download

Install add-ons

Once Installed , restart your browser

Now, Navigate to FireFox/Web Developer/Selenium IDE to launch the tool.

Your Tool is Up & Running.

3.       Extra Add-ons (Will be Explained later): Firebug .

Next we will record our first Selenium Script.

Fun Fact: Selenium git its name as it was one of the competitor to Mercury’s QTP. And in Elemental Science, you know Selenium (Se) removes Mercury (Hg) from body, Hence the name.