Selenium WebDriver is one of the most compelling automation testing tools. Watch these slides for a brief introduction of Selenium.

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Introduction to

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What is Selenium?
• Selenium is a web application testing framework that
allows you to write tests in many programming
languages like Java, C#, Groovy, Perl, PHP, Python
and Ruby.
• Selenium deploys on Windows, Linux, and MAC OS.
• It is an open-source project, released under
the Apache 2.0 license, so you can download and use
it without charge.

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Components of Selenium

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Terminologies In Selenium
• Selenium Core (aka Core) is a set of JavaScript
scripts that control the browser, imitating user
activity. These scripts are injected into the
web page and executed according to a list of
actions written in a special HTML-table-based
command language (aka Selense), thus
simulating user activity.

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Terminologies In Selenium
• Selenium RC (aka Selenium Remote
Control or Selenium 1) receives Selenium Core
commands via HTTP and executes them on a
remote machine, proxying the web browser in
order to avoid the “same host origin”
restriction. This also allows writing the tests in
other languages like C#, Python, Perl,
PHP, Java and Ruby (via language bindings for
Selenium Core).

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Terminologies In Selenium
• Selenium-WebDriver (aka WebDriver or Selenium 2) is a successor of Selenium
RC. It does the same job, but in a different way: instead of injecting a JavaScript
code into the browser to simulate user actions, it uses the browser’s native
support for automation (different for each browser). Also, instead of a dictionary-
based API (used in Selenium RC), it offers the more convenient object-oriented
API.
• Selenium Server allows using Selenium-WebDriver on a remote machine.
• Selenium IDE is a Firefox add-on that records user activity and creates a test case
based on it. It can also play the tests back and save them as a program in different
languages.
• Selenium-Grid allows you run the tests on different machines against different
browsers in parallel; in other words it enables distributed test execution.
• Selenese is a special “language” represented by a set of Selenium commands that
run your tests. A sequence of these commands is called a test script.

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Selenium IDE
• Selenium IDE is software testing tool for web applications. It
provides record and playback facility to regression test any
web application. To use selenium IDE, It is not compulsory to
have any programming language knowledge.
• Selenium IDE is open source web application testing tool.
Selenium IDE provides facility to export recorded script in
many languages like HTML, Java, Ruby, RSpec, Python, C#,
JUnit and TestNG. You can use these exported script in
Selenium RC or webdriver.

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Pros and Cons of using Selenium
WebDriver for Website Scraping
Advantages
• WebDriver can simulate a real user working with a
browser.
• WebDriver can scrape a web site using a specific
browser.
• WebDriver can scrape complicated web pages with
dynamic content.
• WebDriver is able to take screenshots of the
webpage

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Pros and Cons of using Selenium
WebDriver for Website Scraping
Disadvantages
• The program becomes quite large.
• A browser application needs to be started.
• The scraping process is slower.
• The browser generates a bigger network traffic.
• The scraping can be detected by such simple means
as Google Analytics.

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How you can master Selenium
Webdriver?
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Suggested Audience & Other Details
• Suggested Audience - The course is intended for beginners or
intermediate testers, leads who need to develop or improve
automation techniques using Selenium.
• Duration – 3 Days
• Prerequisites
– Must have knowledge of Core Java
– Good to have knowledge of HTML, CSS, DOM, XML, JavaScript
Syllabus

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