1. Test Automation Using
Selenium
Karapet Sarkisyan

2. Contest
 What is Automated Testing?
• Why Automated Testing?
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Automated Testing
• Selecting an Automation Tool
• Automation Testing Tools In The Market
 Selenium
• What is Selenium
• Advantages Of Selenium
• Selenium Components

3. Why Automated Testing?
 Automated Software Testing Saves Time and Money
 Vastly Increases Your Test Coverage
 Testing Improves Accuracy
 Automation Does What Manual Testing Cannot
 Automated QA Testing Helps Developers and Testers
 QA and Dev Team Morale Improves

4. Advantages and Disadvantages of
Automated Testing
 Reliable: eliminating human error
 Reusable
 Better Quality Software
 Fast
 Cost Reduction
 High investment is needed in the tools
and training
 High man power requirement for test
preparations
 A lot of testing areas left uncovered
Advantages Disadvantages

5. Selecting an Automation Tool
 Support for Various Operating Systems, Applications and Platforms
 Support for Mobile Devices
 Support for Various Software Testing Types
 Creating Automated Tests Without Programming
 Recording Automated Software Tests
 Creating Cross-Browser Web Tests
 Creating Cross-Platform Mobile Web Tests

6. Automation Testing Tools In The Market
 QTP
 HP Mercury WinRunner
 IBM Rational Functional Tester
 Micro Focus Silk Test
 Selenium
 Watir
 Sikuli
 FitNesse
Commercial Testing Tools Open Source Testing Tools

7. What is Selenium?
Selenium is a chemical element:
 Chemical Symbol: Se
 Atomic Number: 34
 Atomic Mass: 78.96
 Melting Point: 428.9F
 Element Classification: Non-Meta
 Crystal Structure: Hexagonal

8. What is Selenium?
 Browser based Web Application testing tool
 Open Source License
 Extensible Framework
 Support Mobile Testing Android/iOS
 Write Test Cases using Language of choice Java, C#, Python, Ruby & HTML
 Supports Native Browser Testing

9. Advantages Of Selenium
 Open Source, free of cost for companies
 Supports Native Testing for all major Browsers
 Customize According to the Requirements
 AJAX based Testing
 Only tool to support Test Case Language of Choice Java, C#, Python & Ruby.
 Selenium 2 .., Web Drivers is developed by Google and all the google products
are tested with Selenium.
 Web companies such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Groupon uses Selenium.

10. Selenium Components
 Selenium Core
 Selenium IDE
 Selenium RC (Remote Control)
 Selenium Web Drivers
 Selenium Grid

11. Selenium Core
 Selenium Core is a component core JavaScript Library developed by the Jason
Huggins and ThoughtWorks Team.
 Selenium Core is the foundation for other components Selenium IDE &
Selenium RC

12. Selenium IDE
 Can do Record and Playback
 Create & edit Test Cases & Test Suites
 Extensions for Firefox
 Run Selenese Commands
 Convert Test Case to different languages

13. Selenium IDE

14. General Selenese Commands
 clicking a link - click or clickAndWait commands
 entering values - type command
 selecting options from a drop-down list-box - select command
 clicking checkboxes or radio buttons - click command

15. Selenium IDE -> Bye-Bye
Selenium IDE

16. Selenium Remote Control (RC)
Selenium RC is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI
tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any
mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.
Selenium RC comes in two parts.
1. A server which automatically launches and kills browsers, and acts as a HTTP proxy
for web requests from them.
2. Client libraries for your favorite computer language.

17. Selenium RC

18. Selenium Web Driver
Selenium Web Driver is in version 2.0
 Selenium Web Driver APIs makes Native API calls to the browser.
 Native automation faster and a little less prone to error and browser
configuration
 Does not Requires Selenium-RC Server to be running
 Access to headless HTMLUnit can allow really fast tests

19. Selenium Grid
 Selenium-Grid allows the Selenium-RC solution to scale for test suites or test
suites to be run in multiple environments.
 With Selenium-Grid multiple instances of Selenium-RC are running on various
operating system and browser configurations, each of these when launching
register with a hub. When tests are sent to the hub they are then redirected
to an available Selenium-RC, which will launch the browser and run the test.
 This allows for running tests in parallel, with the entire test suite
theoretically taking only as long to run as the longest individual test.

20. Questions ???