The Starting Words
Whilst re-factoring code of an ASP.NET application, I had to go through testing process of some web pages repeatedly in four different browsers namely Internet Explorer, Ubuntu, Chrome and Mozilla. The whole task of testing was becoming very tedious and being a lazy programmer, I was searching for a simple and free of cost solution to automate the web page testing. I did some research work over the Internet and found Selenium as an effective testing tool. It is now helping me a lot in doing my testing work. Here I am sharing you valuable knowledge on Selenium WebDriver, which a small but important part of Selenium.
Selenium
Selenium is basically a testing tool suite to automate the web browsers by allowing them to be controlled through many programming languages and testing frameworks. It is supported in many platforms and browsers. The main purpose of using this testing tool is to automate the testing of web applications. It can also be used for automating repeated web-based administration tasks. The three components of Selenium are – Selenium WebDriver, Selenium Server and Selenium IDE.
Selenium WebDriver
The WebDriver was introduced in Selenium 2.0 version. It provides a simpler programming solution with well-designed object-oriented API. It directly supports the browser’s native function for automation depending on your browser you are using. If your browser and tests are running on the same system and your tests are only using WebDriver API, then you need not to run Selenium Server. To complete knowledge of Selenium, you can opt for any software testing training institute like QACampus!
How Selenium WebDriver Runs?
Here is the sample of a program that runs in two simple steps:
Step 1 – Selenium Web-Driver Set-up
Initially, you have to set up the Selenium WebDriver in your machine. WebDriver is supported by the Firefox browser by default. And 64 bit WebDriver has been provided for the Internet Explorer 32 with a source code.
Step 2 – Run the Application by Providing Arguments
There are two ways to run an application by providing the arguments. One is go to Visual Studio and go to Project then to Properties and then to Debug tab to get command line arguments. And the other one is – go to command prompt then navigate to debug folder and provide the arguments.
How It Works ?
- Find the command line arguments and identify browser to use & search keyword.
- Application will navigate to Google search website using the instance of WebDriver
- Now application is to search for input text box by name “q” from DOM of web page
- Lastly, click on the submit button of respective search form
- For more on Selenium and building career in this testing tool, you need to take proper Selenium testing training from a trusted institute.
The Final Words
In the end, it can be concluded that Selenium provides a full scale solution to perform the process of integration testing continuously for your web applications and manage test cases in an efficient manner.
