Selenium Types

I Generally divide selenium into 3 types.

a) Selenium IDE

b) Selenium RC

c) Selenium Web Driver


IDE Stands for Integrated Development Environment.

RC   Stands for Remote Control Server.


In all the above tools,present market is mostly around Selenium Web Driver.

Introduction to Selenium

Selenium outweighs QTP Mainly in 2 areas

• . Cost
•   Flexibility 
•   Parallel Testing

Selenium first came to life in 2004 when Jason Huggins was testing an internal application at Thought Works. Being a smart guy, he realized there were better uses of his time than manually stepping through the same tests with every change he made. He developed a Java script library that could drive interactions with the page, allowing him to automatically rerun tests against multiple browsers. That library eventually became Selenium Core, which underlies all the functionality of Selenium Remote Control (RC) and Selenium IDE. Selenium RC was ground-breaking because no other product allowed you to control a browser from a language of your choosing.

It came from a joke which Jason cracked one time to his team. Another automated testing framework was popular during Selenium’s development, and it was by the company called Mercury Interactive (yes, the company who originally made QTP before it was acquired by HP). Since Selenium is a well-known antidote for Mercury poisoning, Jason suggested that name. His teammates took it, and so that is how we got to call this framework up to the present.

QTP Advantages over Selenium

Selenium Advantages over QTP

Introduction to Selenium

Selenium is a web based cross browser open source automation testing tool. 1. Open Source tool. 2. Supports multiple OS and Browsers.