How Selenium Testing Works?

Selenium is one of the most amazing software that you can think of for automating various testing process. None of the software development project management team is ever satisfied with testing. They want endless testing and testing never ends. However, as test cases, suites are executed; you get some sort of satisfaction seeing positive execution of test cases. However, test cases need to be executed again and again. Manual execution can be costly; boring has no place in software testing. Hence, to save cost, companies always look for automation testing once they are being satisfied with all testing. Undoubtedly, Selenium is the most important example of automation testing tool that provides the best testing through all browsers. We have selenium IDE that can be installed on Firefox.

You just need to install the Selenium IDE and then you can use them for any kind of integration testing. Selenium testing is an integration testing and you can check the whole website or a web application all together via Firefox or any browser. However, you need to install the Selenium IDE for that particular browser. 

You need to create the test case, however. You can also make the test suite with various test cases. You can run the whole test suite once. However, you need to record the test case. For doing that, you need to open the Firefox and start the Selenium IDE. Now you need to start recording and meanwhile also go on completing the process in browser for that website or web application. Each step of your process will be recorded. You need to do nothing else. 

Selenium testing is one of the most popular ways of automating the testing process. You must have seen this kind of setup with many scripts where your browser activity is being recorded. You need to do nothing else. All the process is similar.

You can run all the test cases one by one or you can run the complete test suite at once. You need nothing else.  Undoubtedly, the automation testing can save you a lot of time. There is one other big advantage that you will be finding with Selenium. You can export it to various programming language environment like C#, Java, Python and so on.  

You can check the test case in TextPad. Then you can run that test case in any environment that you want to use. However, you cannot import the test cases from other programming language environment to Selenium IDE. In that case you might find yourself hands tied. You just cannot import. You need to remember that this is an example of integration test. Hence, your expert to C# means you have created Unit test. Undoubtedly, Selenium has gone through many versions. At start it was available for on Firefox. However, now it is possible to find various versions compatible with various browsers. 

Selenium testing is much more popular than other kind of testing like Jmeter testing and so on. Survey suggests that Selenium testing is the most popular one right now.