Selenium (IDE) - A Best Solution for Web Application Automated Testing

With the rise in demand for smart phones and iPhones that can serve multiple features in a single handheld device, the need for several software applications have also increased gradually. Software application and web applications will not run effectively unless test automations are developed to control them from getting crashed all the time. Test automation solutions provide automatic testing of software which was earlier tested manually, quickly and repeatedly.

Selenium is such an automation testing tool that performs tests of software and web application automatically. It is one of the most widely used open source automation testing tool with many competitive features and also supports the budget. 

Some of the features of selenium testing are as follows:

• Selenium provides with easy record and playback tool to perform tests without gaining any knowledge of scripting language.

• It helps in intelligent field selection by use of IDs, names or XPath

• Provides a test domain specific language that allows to write tests in other languages like Java, Groovy, Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby

• It can be installed in Windows, Linux and Macintosh platforms

• Facilitates Firefox extension and allows recording, editing and debugging of tests.

• Facilitates auto completion support to the selenium scripts for recording and editing purpose

• Provides easy customization by use of several plugins like addition of new functionality to the API, requisite change to the existing functionality, additional custom formats and export capabilities, plugins to updating RDF files.

• New locater strategy is a newly developed plugins of selenium testing which will be launched very soon. 

Automated web testing with selenium can be illustrated with Ajax applications and Dojo application. Ajax application is a web development technique and can not reload the page all the time. So, to make the web page more interactive and also to increase its speed such tests are applied over it. Similarly it also supports Dojo application which is a Java script tool. Testing is done to recognize the Dojo widgets and also to record their actions.

Selenium automated testing services can be obtained from offshore software testing companies as they commit to give best services and gives an opportunity to the customers to look at their testing case studies and projects. So this will definitely avoid any misguidance. They sound to be a complete package facilitating timeliness, within budget with quality goals. For more details refer the home page.