Selenium RC for web application test automation
Selenium is a very popular - open source - web application test automation - tool. Selenium is very powerful mainly because of the programming language support it has for - ruby, python, perl, java, etc. That brings a lot of these languages' features like adding logic and handling database connections to the test tool. Today's web applications are multi-tiered and automating tests for them is a challenge. Selenium makes life easy by providing cross-platform execution and cross-browser compatibility testing . So, how do we create and run Selenium tests ? Check out the following. You need: Knoweldge in HTML will be extremely useful. Latest Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Get it from Oracle/Sun and install it. Test if it's installed correctly by running: java -version from the command line. Firefox browser. Download it from Mozilla and install Firebug Addon for Firefox browser. This Addon is very useful when locating elements and their attributes. Ge...