Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Learning Selenium automation using Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Xpath Checker and Firebug with Java

If you want to learn how to use Selenium for Automation Testing effectively you need know the following

  • Selenium IDE
    • Recording and Playback
    • Modifying HTML test script
  • XPath Checker
    • To read the names of Element with Attributes
    • To get Xpath of a element
    • To understand how it will each element in identified in a html web page.
  • Firebug 
    • To inspect a web page element
    • To check the attribute list of a web page element
  • Selenium RC
    • To execute test cases in different browsers
  • Java
    • Programming language for maximum flexibility and extensibility


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