How to choose the right selenium automation testing tools?

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How to Choose the right Selenium Automation
Testing Tools?
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Nexsoftsys
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Selenium Automation Testing Services

• Selenium is an Open-source(Free) automated tool.
• Selenium is used for web application across
  various platforms and browsers.
• It is not a single tool but it is a set of
  software which are supporting automation testing.
• Selenium is developed by Jason Huggins in 2004
  to do testing in web application. And it has many
  others developer too.
• When it developed it was known as
  JavaScriptTestRunner , latter its changed with
  Selenium core.
• It is very flexible compare to other testing
  because it is supporting multiple browsers and
  languages. It is the key feature of selenium
  automation testing .

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Selenium Automation Testing Tools Suits

• Selenium has 4 components Selenium (IDE),
  Selenium RC, WebDriver, Selenium Grid

Selenium IDE
Web- Driver
Selenium RC
Selenium Grid
Selenium 2

• Selenium 2 is combination of Selenium RC and
  Web driver and Selenium 1 is RC.

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Brief Description on Selenium Testing Tools

• Selenium QA Tester focuses on the tools they
  needed but to know all the selenium automation
  testing tools are sometimes beneficial.

Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

• It is very Simple and Easiest to learn
• It is a Firefox extension so just like other
  plug-in we have to add extension only.
• It is also providing recording services which
  will be helpful in future to check past records.
• Its not require programming knowledge or special
  qualifications,
• Limitations It can be useful only in Firefox
  and creates only prototypes of tests. It is not
  supporting Conditional and iteration operations.

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Selenium Remote Control (RC)

• Selenium RC is the first tool who allows the
  user to choose the language they prefer like
  Java, C, Python, Ruby, Perl.
• It is executing faster than IDE and support data
  driven testing.
• It can be perform the iteration and conditional
  operation.
• it is also known as Selenium 1 and it is provide
  a support and some features which are also not
  available in selenium R2.
• It supports to almost all browsers.
• Limitations It is needed Programming knowledge.
  Installation is complex than IDE and execution is
  slower than webDriver . Result is inconsistence
  and API contains some confusing commands.

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WebDriver

• Its have many features where are best than
  Selenium RC and IDE.
• It is not depend in Java Script and it controls
  browsers by direct communications.
• It can be simply installed than Selenium RC and
  browser realistic is more reliable.
• It is supported many languages same as in
  Selenium RC.
• It has a purpose to provide a friendly API
  that's easy to explore and to learn, and to use
  than the Selenium-RC (1.0) API, which will assist
  to make tests easier to understand and maintain.
• Limitations It Cannot support to the new
  browsers. It can not generate test results or
  any recording services.

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Selenium Grid

• It is used with Selenium RC to run
  simultaneously tests across various machines and
  browsers all at the same time.
• You can boosts up performance substantially of
  slow-running test suit or large test suit by
  using selenium grid tool.
• So, it is saving lots of time by dividing tests
  o various platforms and doing parallel works.
• Limitations It needs to maintain other system
  on which node are running. It have no capability
  for user input if your test needs user input.

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Selenium 2

• To make a powerful tool in 2008, Selenium team
  decided to merge selenium and WebDriver together.
• It is the answer of limitation of all others
  selenium tools it is more modern and
  object-oriented APIs.

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Conclusion

• For Beginner, it is good to use Selenium IDE, it
  is only an add-on so you can easily do small
  tastes within seconds.
• To effectively use selenium for automation
  testing use Selenium 1 or selenium2 as per suited
  to your test suits.
• In terms of cost and flexibility, selenium is
  better than QTP(Quick Test Professional).
• It is flexible because you can add your
  functionally in script or framework of selenium
  tools. So you can customize the selenium test
  suits.
• These all are the reasons why selenium is the
  best Automation testing services.

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