The Best 4 Ways to Build a Selenium Testing Strategy

                     

The need for software testing in the entire SDLC process has increased for various reasons. Ranging from ensuring the quality of software, shorter software lifecycle by preventing rework, faster time to market and customer satisfaction to achieving brand popularity and ROI. However, testing per se need not ensure the above objectives given the limitations of the manual way of doing it. This calls for the automation by using a number of tools, both open source and licensed. Open source tools (read dynamic web applications) such as JUnit, WebDriver, SOAP UI, JMeter or Robotium, and Selenium take the cake by a long measure.

What is Selenium Testing?

It is an open source user interface driven automation tool for faster testing of web applications by covering a large number of test scenarios. Apart from being freely available, Selenium functional testing can provide a slew of key benefits such as;

• Easy to write reliable and maintainable test scripts by using popular languages like Java, PHP, Perl, C#, Ruby, .Net, Scala, Groovy and Python through the use of a domain specific language called Selenese.

• No need to learn a specific test scripting language like Selenium IDE thanks to the presence of a record or playback tool.

• Testing can be performed on any of the OS platforms, be it Windows, Linux, or Mac.

• The testing process is not limited to a single browser but can be carried out on any browser such as Chrome, Bing, Safari, Opera or Firefox.

• Can be used with other testing tools such as JUnit or TestNG to generate reports and carry out further testing.

 

Nonetheless, the benefits of opting for Selenium testing services involves the following aspects as well.

• Being open source, there is no specific support for Selenium save for the ones provided by the user community.

• To enable image based testing one needs to integrate a software called Sikuli.

• Carrying out Selenium testing in fast moving environments can be difficult.

Testing can be quite slow vis-a-vis an API level test. This can have a significant bearing when the demand is for a faster feedback.

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