Selenium - test tool for web applications
23 Apr 08Selenium is an instrument for JavaScript web based applications automated testing.
From the beginning I was skeptical about Selenium and its possibilities. The first thing I thought when I was looking a presentation for it was – “Another tool with more restrictions than possibilities.” It was so till the day I tried it.
It really turned out that it is more than I expected. The project Selenium is divided into few subprojects.
I’m using only 2 of these projects - Selenium IDE and Selenium RC.
Selenium IDE is a plug-in for Firefox. The test scripts can be recorded quite easily with its help. Apart from recorder the plug-in can be also used to run tests themselves, as well as for their debugging (using the option for executing the test step by step). The tests are recorded in HTML and table’s elements are used for describing the test-related data.
