The Magic of Selenium

Selenium is a free (open source) automated testing suite for web applications across different browsers and platforms.

Selenium 1.0(RC) + WebDriver = Selenium 2.0

          The biggest change in Selenium recently has been the inclusion of the Web Driver API. WebDriver is a web automation framework that allows you to execute your tests against different browsers, not just Firefox (unlike Selenium IDE).

          WebDriver also enables you to use a programming language in creating your test scripts (not possible in Selenium IDE).

Following programming languages are supported by WebDriver

·        Java

·        NET

·        PHP

·        Python

·        Perl

·        Ruby

It drives the browser much more effectively and overcomes the limitations of Selenium 1.0 which affected our functional test coverage, like the file upload or download, pop-ups and dialog's barrier.

Platform supported by Selenium 2.0

·        Windows 

·        OS X

·        Linux

·        Solaris