Last updated on November 18th, 2009
- What is Selenium? Selenium is a suite of tools to automate web applications testing across many platforms
- What test can Selenium do?
- What is the price of Selenium license per server? Selenium is open source software, released under the Apache 2.0 license and can be downloaded and used without charge.
- How much does Selenium license cost per client machine? Selenium is open source software, released under the Apache 2.0 license and can be downloaded and used without charge.
- Where to download Selenium? Selenium can be downloaded and installed for free from seleniumhq.org
- What is the latest version of Selenium? The latest version of Selenium Core, Selenium IDE, Selenium RC and Selenium Grid can be found on Selenium download page
- What is Selenium IDE? Selenium IDE is a Firefox add-on that records clicks, typing, and other actions to make a test, which you can play back in the browser
- What is Selenium Remote Control (RC) tool? Selenium Remote Control (RC) runs your tests in multiple browsers and platforms. Tweak your tests in your preferred language.
- What is Selenium Grid? Selenium Grid extends Selenium RC to distribute your tests across multiple servers, saving you time by running tests in parallel.
- How many browsers are supported by Selenium IDE? Test Engineer can record and playback test with Selenium IDE in Firefox.
- How many browsers are supported by Selenium Remote Control? QA Engineer can use Firefox, IE 7, Safari and Opera browsers to run actuall tests in Selenium RC.
- How many programming languages can you use in Selenium RC? Several programming languages are supported by Selenium Remote Control. C# Java Perl PHP Python Ruby
- What are the advantages using Selenium as testing tool? If QA Engineer would compare Selenium with HP QTP or Micro Focus SilkTest, QA Engineer would easily notice tremendous cost savings for Selenium. In contrast to expensive SilkTest or QTP license, Selenium automation tool is absolutely free. Selenium allows writing and executing test cases in various programming languages including C#, Java, PERL, Python, PHP and even HTML. Selenium allows simple and powerful DOM-level testing and in the same time could be used for testing in the traditional waterfall or modern Agile environments. Selenium would be definitely a great fit for the continuous integration.
- What are the disadvantages of using Selenium as testing tool? Selenium weak points are tricky setup; dreary errors diagnosis; tests only web applications
- How did you use Selenium in your job?
- Describe some problem that you had with Selenium tool.
- Is there training available for Selenium?
- Do you know any alternative tools for Selenium and why would you use them for the software automation testing?
- Have you read any good books on Selenium? There are several books covering Selenium automation tool "An Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium" by C. Titus Brown, Gheorghe Gheorghiu, Jason Huggins "Java Power Tools" by John Ferguson Smart
- Compare HP QTP vs Selenium? Read Selenium vs QTP comparison
- Compare Borland Silktest vs Selenium? Check Selenium vs SilkTest comparison
- Do you contribute to the Selenium community?
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