This document provides an overview of Selenium and its applications for automating web browser interactions and testing web applications. It discusses that Selenium is an open-source tool that supports test automation for a variety of browsers and is useful for reducing costs and time spent on manual testing. The document also summarizes several Selenium tools for automated testing including Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver, and the Selenium Standalone Server. It provides examples of job opportunities working with Selenium and includes additional references and training links.

1. Alireza Azimzadeh Milani
Author of “Practical Guide on Python Programming” and
“Practical Guide on Pentesting with Kali Linux”.
Penetration-Tester, RHCE, LPIC-2, CEH, PWK, WiFu, …
3rd Python Conference, Iran, 2016

2. Level Audience: Intermediate

3. Concepts:
 What is Selenium (Se.)
 Selenium Applications
 Tools for Automating Interactions
 Job Opportunities in The World
 A demo(Tut)
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4. So, What is Selenium (Se.) ?
 Se is a browser automation framework
 like as Django web framework.
 Se is a set of tools for automating browsers
 Se supports browsers including Firefox,
Internet-Explorer, Google-Chrome, Safari, and
Opera.
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BIO:

6. Selenium Applications:
 Largely used for testing & validating applications
 Automating repetitive tasks in browser
 Reduce financial costs and time
 because teams don’t have time or money to invest in
large test teams to make sure that applications work as
they are expected.
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7. Selenium Applications (Cont’d):
 For WEB Penetration-Testing
 Testing logical vulnerabilities:
for Ex: authentication, access control, input validation.
 Testing technical vulnerabilities:
for Ex: XSS, …
 Using in Web-Scraping
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8. Selenium Applications (Cont’d):
 For WEB Penetration-Testing
 Hacking a logical vulnerability: BUG BOUNTY
for bypassing CAPTCHA puzzle pattern:
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Thanks to:
BugCrowd.com
HackerONE.com

9. Selenium Applications (Cont’d):
 For WEB Penetration-Testing
 Hacking a technical vulnerability: BUG BOUNTY
for discovering a XSS vulnerability:
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10. Tools for Automating Interactions:
1. Selenium IDE:
 this is a Firefox add-on
 Disadvantages:
- it can only be used with FF
- also, all selenium tools don’t
support RIA technologies
such as: Silverlight, JavaFx,
and Flex/Flash.
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11. Tools Automating Interactions (Cont’d):
1. Selenium IDE:
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12. Tools Automating Interactions (Cont’d):
2. Selenium WebDriver:
 Is a programming interface for developing advanced
scripts using different programming languages.
 We can run tests on multiple browsers that is so-called:
Cross-Browser; And on multiple OS that is so-called:
Cross-Platform (IOS, Android, Linux, Win, Mac, …).
 Se.WebDriver offers many libraries for writing test scripts
in various languages, including Java, C#, Python, Ruby,
PHP, Perl, and JavaScript.
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13. Tools Automating Interactions (Cont’d):
2. Selenium WebDriver:
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14. Tools Automating Interactions (Cont’d):
3. Selenium Standalone Server:
 known as “Se.Grid” and that distributes test-scripts on
machines
 For Se.Grid, need a Java Runtime Environment (JRE);
then:
1) nohup java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.53.jar >
/root/milani/selenium.log &
2) java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.53.jar -host
10.1.10.14 -port 4444 -role hub
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15. Tools Automating Interactions (Cont’d):
3. Selenium Standalone Server:
 Hub: be understood as server which acts as the
central point
 Node: are Se.instances that are attached to the Hub
which execute the tests.
 Note« Se.Grid includes Hub, WebDriver, and Se.RC to
execute the scripts in the Grid.
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16. Tools Automating Interactions (Cont’d):
3. Selenium Standalone Server:
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17. Selenium Jobs:
www.indeed.com/q-Selenium-jobs.html
www.naukri.com/selenium-jobs #Special for India.
www.careerbuilder.com/jobs-selenium
www.upwork.com/o/jobs/browse/skill/selenium
An example of upwork.com:
Selenium script for downloading files.
Hourly - Entry Level ($) - Est. Time: Less than 1 month, 10-30 hrs/week - Posted 2 days ago.
Environment: Java-based platform, Selenium/TestNG framework.
Purpose: develop a script to automate the downloading of files from different web portals. ...
Each web portal (Java-based) has a completely different structure. We have ~20 user test cases
using Selenium; means: you should write a script for executing ~20 test cases.
Number of freelancers needed: 3
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18. Selenium Jobs (Cont’d):
Country:
United States
Currency:
USD
Updated:
3 April 2016
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19. A Practical Python Book:
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Author:
Alireza Azimzadeh Milani
Publication:
PendarePars
Year:
2016
Link:
www.pendarepars.com/
Home/Search/Python

20.  Selenium 2 Testing Tools
By: David Burns, © 2012
 Selenium Testing Tools Starter
By: Unmesh Gundecha, © 2013
 Learning Selenium Testing Tools with Python
By: Unmesh Gundecha, © 2014
 Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook, 2nd Edition
By: Unmesh Gundecha, © 2015
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 www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-
alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=selenium
References:
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21.  www.slideshare.net/videotuition/selendroid-vs-appium-mobile-test-
automation-frameworks-selenium-web-driver-automation-32158263
 www.installationpage.com/selenium/how-to-run-selenium-headless-
firefox-in-ubuntu
 www.gridlastic.com/python-code-example.html
 http://testdroid.com/tech AND http://testdroid.com/testdroid
 http://simeonvisser.com/posts/running-tests-in-python-with-selenium-2-
and-webdriver.html
 www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-seleniumgrid
 www.toolsqa.com/selenium-video-tutorial
Additional Training Links:
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AliAzimzadeh.Blogfa.com
IrSecTeam.org (Iran Security Team)
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