Selenium- Software Testing Tool and its advantages?


Introduction:
Functional automation has lot of advantages. In today's world; almost every company is working on automation. Only being a manual tester will affect one’s career for sure. Knowing Selenium Web driver will give a boost to your career. The market is full of a number of automation tools for functional testing but opt for a tool which is on-demand and easy to learn.



Developed in 2004 by Thoughtworks developer for internal usage, Selenium is a widely used functional automation tool for web applications. WebDriver is a web automation framework that allows to execute tests against different browsers like Firefox, Chrome, I.E., Safari and even headless browsers like Phantom js, HTMLUnit etc. This becomes highly resourceful test execution and testing it across various browsers simultaneously. WebDriver enables tester to write Test Scripts in any programming language i.e. PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, C#, Java etc. whatever the developers/testers are comfortable with. The biggest strength of Selenium WebDriver is that it is a freeware tool. It has no direct costs involved. It can be freely downloaded. Selenium supports multiple Operating Systems (OS) like Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac etc. With Selenium test scripts can be created over any platform / OS and then executed on another one. Selenium integrates with programming languages and various frameworks. For source code compilation, it can integrate with ANT or Maven. For Test execution and reporting purposes it can integrate with TestNG framework. It can integrate with Jenkins for Continuous Integration (CI). Selenium Test Automation Scripts can be implemented for Mobile web application automation on Android, IPhone, and Blackberry. Selenium support is community based and community support enables constant updates which are readily available and do not require specific training making Selenium resourceful and cost-effective. Additionally, Selenium’s reporting capabilities are one of the reasons for choosing it, as it allows testers to extract the results and take follow-up actions. Profoundedutech's Advanced++ and Advance Diploma coursesfor Software testing covers all basic and advanced Selenium WebDriver concepts. Practically it covers automation of one complete web application enriching their learning, building employability, and helping students to develop expert level automation capabilities.

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