Selenium Tutorial For Beginners | Selenium Automation Testing Tutorial | Selenium | Simplilearn
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The document discusses manual testing and its limitations, highlighting its time-consuming nature and error risk compared to automated testing using Selenium. Selenium, developed to automate web application testing, offers multiple tools such as Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, and Selenium WebDriver, each with unique features and limitations. It emphasizes the advantages of Selenium in terms of speed, accuracy, and support for multiple programming languages and platforms while noting its limitations, including lack of reliable tech support and built-in reporting.
Selenium Tutorial For Beginners | Selenium Automation Testing Tutorial | Selenium | Simplilearn
- 2. What’s in it for you? Manual testing and its limitations What is Selenium? Advantages of Selenium testing Selenium suite of tools Limitations of Selenium testing
- 3. What is Machine Learning? Manual Testing
- 4. Manual Testing Manual testing mainly involves the physical execution of test cases against various applications to detect bugs and errors
- 5. Manual Testing One of the primitive methods of testing a software
- 6. Manual Testing One of the primitive methods of testing a software Execution of test cases without using automation tools
- 7. Manual Testing One of the primitive methods of testing a software Execution of test cases without using automation tools Does not require the knowledge of a testing tool
- 8. Manual Testing One of the primitive methods of testing a software Execution of test cases without using automation tools Does not require the knowledge of a testing tool Can practically test any application
- 9. Limitations of Manual Testing Extremely time consuming Requires a tester all the time No support for performance and batch testing Limited scope Manual creation of logs and repositories High risk of error
- 10. Birth of Selenium Jason Huggins, an engineer at ThoughtWorks, Chicago found the repetitious work of manual testing strenuous and monotonous He developed a JavaScript program to automate the testing of a web application The program was called JavaScriptTestRunner Initially, the new invention was deployed by the inmates at Thoughtworks. However, in 2004 it was renamed as Selenium and was made open source
- 11. How does Selenium help? Speed of execution Accurate results Lesser investment in human resources Time and cost effective Early time to market Supports re-testing
- 12. What is Machine Learning? What is Selenium?
- 13. What is Selenium? Selenium is an automated testing tool used to test web applications across various browsers
- 14. What is Selenium? Selenium is an automated testing tool used to test web applications across various browsers Open source Consists of a set of software tools that facilitate testing Primarily developed in JavaScript Provides a record/playback tool for authoring tests without learning a test scripting language Can be coded in many programming languages Browser and platform independent
- 15. What is Selenium? Since its inception, Selenium has been a powerful automation testing tool to test various web applications across different platforms
- 16. What is Machine Learning? Selenium suite of tools
- 17. Selenium suite of tools Selenium IDE Selenium test suite Selenium suite
- 18. Selenium suite of tools Selenium RCSelenium IDE Selenium test suite Selenium suite
- 19. Selenium suite of tools Selenium RC Selenium WebDriver Selenium IDE Selenium test suite Selenium suite
- 20. Selenium suite of tools Selenium RC Selenium WebDriver Selenium Grid Selenium IDE Selenium test suite Selenium suite
- 21. Selenium 1 Selenium 2 Selenium 3 Selenium 4 Selenium IDE Selenium RC Grid Selenium IDE *Selenium RC Grid Selenium IDE Selenium WebDriver Grid Selenium WebDriver Version 4 is just around the corner. However, Alpha has been released! Selenium versions
- 22. Selenium suite of tools Selenium RC Selenium WebDriver Selenium Grid Selenium suite Selenium IDE Let’s learn about Selenium IDE
- 23. Developed by Shinya Kastani in 2006 Firefox add-on that helps create tests Easy-to-use interface to build automated test scripts Records user interactions on the browser and exports them as a reusable script Generally used as a prototyping tool Selenium IDE
- 24. Selenium IDE Selenium IDE ceased to exist in August 2017 Firefox upgraded to a new Firefox 55 version which no longer supported Selenium IDE Applitools rewrote the old Selenium IDE and released a new version recently
- 25. Selenium IDE Re-usability of test scripts Debugging the scripts Selenium side runner Provision for control flow statements Improved locator functionality Advancements with new Selenium IDE
- 26. Selenium IDE Typical Selenium Integrated Development Environment Record
- 27. Selenium IDE Typical Selenium Integrated Development Environment Tool Bar
- 28. Selenium IDE Typical Selenium Integrated Development Environment Test script editor box
- 29. Selenium IDE Typical Selenium Integrated Development Environment Test execution log
- 30. Selenium IDE Cannot export to WebDriver scripts yet Does not support data- driven testing yet Cannot perform database testing Cannot provide detailed test report Limitations of Selenium IDE
- 31. Selenium suite of tools Selenium RC Selenium WebDriver Selenium Grid Selenium suite Selenium IDE Let’s learn about Selenium RC
- 32. Selenium RC The browser works accordingly Paul Hammant developed Selenium RC Selenium RC is a server written in Java RC makes provision for writing application tests in various programming languages like Java, C#, Perl, PHP, Python etc The RC server accepts commands from the user program and passes them to the browser as Selenium-Core JavaScript commands
- 33. Selenium RC RC Server Web browser injected with Selenium core • Consider a JavaScript program test.js used by google.com • The program can access pages within google.com like google.com/mail, google.com/login
- 34. Selenium RC RC Server Web browser injected with Selenium core • However, it cannot access elements of other domains like yahoo.com • Local copies of Selenium core and the web browser had to be installed so that they belonged to the same domain
- 35. Selenium RC RC Server Web browser injected with Selenium core This is called Same Origin Policy and Selenium RC was introduced to address this limitation. The server acts as a client configured HTTP proxy and "tricks" the browser into believing that Selenium Core and the web application being tested come from the same origin
- 36. Selenium RC The time taken for execution of commands is longer This additional setup complicates the architecture RC consists of an additional server that acts as a middle man APIs supported by Selenium RC are redundant and confusing Shortcomings of Selenium RC
- 37. Selenium RC The time taken for execution of commands is longer This additional setup complicates the architecture RC consists of an additional server that acts as a middle man APIs supported by Selenium RC are redundant and confusing Shortcomings of Selenium RC Selenium RC has been deprecated and remains obsolete
- 38. Selenium suite of tools Selenium RC Selenium WebDriver Selenium Grid Selenium suite Selenium IDE Let’s learn about Selenium WebDriverLet’s learn about Selenium WebDriver
- 39. Selenium WebDriver Founded by Simon Stewart in 2006
- 40. Selenium WebDriver Founded by Simon Stewart in 2006 It is a cross platform testing framework
- 41. Selenium WebDriver Founded by Simon Stewart in 2006 It is a cross platform testing framework Programming interface to create and run test cases
- 42. Selenium WebDriver Founded by Simon Stewart in 2006 It is a cross platform testing framework Programming interface to create and run test cases Makes provision to perform action on web elements
- 43. Selenium WebDriver Founded by Simon Stewart in 2006 It is a cross platform testing framework Programming interface to create and run test cases Makes provision to perform action on web elements Does not require a core engine like RC
- 44. Selenium WebDriver Founded by Simon Stewart in 2006 It is a cross platform testing framework Programming interface to create and run test cases Makes provision to perform action on web elements Does not require a core engine like RC Supports Java, C#, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby etc.
- 45. Selenium WebDriver Founded by Simon Stewart in 2006 It is a cross platform testing framework Programming interface to create and run test cases Makes provision to perform action on web elements Does not require a core engine like RC Supports Java, C#, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby etc. Supports frameworks like TestNG, JUnit, NUnit
- 46. Selenium WebDriver JSON Wire Protocol Browser Drivers • ChromeDriver • FirefoxDriver • OperaDriver • SafariDriver • EdgeDriver Browsers • Chrome browser • Firefox browser • Opera browser • Safari browser • Edge browser HTTP over HTTP Server Selenium test script (Java, PHP, Perl…) Architecture of WebDriver
- 47. Selenium WebDriver CrossBrowserTesting Cannot test mobile applications. Requires frameworks like Appium Can only perform sequential testing hence requires Grid for parallel testing Limitations of WebDriver
- 48. Selenium WebDriver Limited reporting. Third party tools like TestNG are required Limited image testing Limitations of WebDriver
- 49. Comparison between Selenium RC and WebDriver Selenium RC Complex architecture Selenium WebDriver Simple architecture
- 50. Comparison between Selenium RC and WebDriver Selenium RC Complex architecture Slower execution Selenium WebDriver Simple architecture Faster execution
- 51. Comparison between Selenium RC and WebDriver Selenium RC Complex architecture Slower execution Requires an RC server to interact with the browser Selenium WebDriver Simple architecture Faster execution Interacts directly with the browser
- 52. Comparison between Selenium RC and WebDriver Selenium RC Complex architecture Slower execution Requires an RC server to interact with the browser Confusing APIs Selenium WebDriver Simple architecture Faster execution Interacts directly with the browser Easy to use APIs
- 53. Comparison between Selenium RC and WebDriver Complex architecture Slower execution Requires an RC server to interact with the browser Confusing APIs No support for HtmlUnit browser Simple architecture Faster execution Interacts directly with the browser Easy to use APIs Support for HtmlUnit browser Selenium RC Selenium WebDriver
- 54. Demo Use case 1: Navigate to the official Simplilearn website. https://www.simplilearn.com/search?tag=automation+testing&source=opensearch Use case 2: Click on “Automation testing masters program” Use case 3: Click on “Selenium 3.0 training”
- 55. Selenium suite of tools Selenium RC Selenium WebDriver Selenium Grid Selenium suite Selenium IDE Let’s learn about Selenium Grid
- 56. Selenium Grid Grid is exceptionally flexible and is integrated with other suite components for simultaneous execution Developed by Patrick Lightbody The main objective of Grid is to minimize test execution time Grid was designed to distribute commands to different machines simultaneously Selenium Grid allows the parallel execution of tests on different browsers and different operating systems
- 57. Selenium Grid The Grid consists of a hub connected to several nodes. It receives the test to be executed along with information about the operating system and browser to be run on
- 58. Selenium Grid The hub picks a node that conforms to the requirements (browser and platform) and passes the test to that node
- 59. Selenium Grid The node runs the browser and executes the selenium commands within it
- 60. Selenium Grid Limitations of Grid Limited scalability Cannot scale up or down on demand
- 61. Selenium Grid Limitations of Grid Limited scalability Cannot scale up or down on demand Static Since the nodes are pre- configured, making changes is a challenge
- 62. Selenium Grid Limitations of Grid Limited scalability Cannot scale up or down on demand Static Since the nodes are pre- configured, making changes is a challenge Not cloud-native Grid cannot use the distributed storage, automatic fail-over facilities
- 63. What is Machine Learning? Advantages of Selenium testing
- 64. Advantages of Selenium testing Speed and accuracy Open source Supports wide spectrum of programming languages
- 65. Advantages of Selenium testing Supports various browsers and operating systems Ease of implementation Reusability and add-ons
- 66. What is Machine Learning? Limitations of Selenium testing
- 67. Limitations of Selenium testing No reliable tech support Limited support for image testing Tests web applications only
- 68. Limitations of Selenium testing No built in reporting facility May require knowledge of programming languages Limited test management
- 69. What is Machine Learning? Key Takeaways
- 70. Key Takeaways
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