A Short Note on Selenium Framework

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Let us understand each one of the tools available in the Selenium suite and their importance.

Selenium IDE

IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment. It is a Firefox plugin that helps testers record their actions and then exports them as a reusable script in one of many programming languages that can be executed later. Selenium IDE has a recording feature, that provides an easy-to-use interface for developing automated tests.

Selenium RC

RC stands for Remote Control. It allows us to write automated web application tests with the help of programming languages such as Java, Perl, Python and PHP to create more complex tests. Selenium RC is great for testing complex AJAX-based web user interfaces under a Continuous Integration system. It is also an ideal solution for users of Selenium IDE who want to write tests in a more expressive programming language.

Selenium WebDriver

Selenium WebDriver is the successor to Selenium RC, which sends commands directly to the browser and retrieves results. WebDriver is a web automation framework that allows you to execute your tests against different browsers, not just Firefox (unlike Selenium IDE).

Selenium Grid

Selenium Grid is a tool used to run parallel tests across different machines and browsers simultaneously, resulting in minimized execution time. Selenium-Grid allows the Selenium RC solution to scale for large test suites and for test suites that must be run in multiple environments.

I hope this article helps you to familiarize yourself with Selenium!! If you want more tools similar to Selenium, you can check out our article on PlayWright, which is also an automation tool.