Using Automation tools to write and execute test cases is known as automation testing. No manual intervention is required while executing an automated test suite. Testers write test scripts and test cases using the automation tool and then group into test suites. (more…)
Executing the test cases manually without any tool support is known as manual testing. Taking tool support and executing the test cases by using automation tool is known as automation testing. Following table shows the difference between manual testing and automation testing. (more…)
You would have tested software applications or web applications manually, so you might be aware of the drawbacks of manual testing. Manual testing is time consuming, tedious and requires heavy investment in human resources. Time constraints often make it impossible to manually test every feature thoroughly before software application or...
Selenium was invented by Jason R. Huggins and team while they were working on a project in ThoughtWorks. Initially it was not named as selenium, it was just that they had to test a time and expense application at ThoughtWorks which needed some tool to test DHTML or Ajax....
Some limitations of Selenium Automation tool are as follows: It does not support and non web-based applications, it only supports web based applications. Its an open source tool so in case of any technical issues you need to rely on the selenium community forums to get your issue resolved. You need to...
Selenium IDE(Integrated Development Environment) is a Firefox add on which supports record/playback mechanism as some other commercial tools like RFT,QTP,Winrunner etc. By using selenium IDE user can record and playback test cases in Firefox browser. Tester can export the test cases from selenium IDE in any of the native language supported...
Selenium RC solves the limitations of Selenium IDE. It supports various programming languages like (Java,PHP,Perl,Python, Ruby) and leverages the programming languages to achieve logic required in test cases like conditional statements, iterations, exception handling, test reporting, database testing, capturing screen shots of failed tests, test case grouping. (more…)
Selenese is the set of selenium commands which are used to test your web application. Tester can test the broken links, existence of some object on the UI, Ajax functionality, Alerts, window, list options and lot more using selenese. Selenium command tells selenium automation engine to perform certain tasks. Selenium...
