Selenium is a open source web testing tool. You can download it from http://selenium.seleniumhq.org/. It run directly in browser and it is platform independent and can be deployed on Linux, MAC and Windows environment (JavaScript-enabled Web browsers, such as recent versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows, Firefox, Mozilla, and Safari for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. )
Selenium IDE records and play for multiple browsers on multiple platforms.
The easiest way of getting started with selenium is to download Selenium IDE. You can download it form http://www.openqa.org/selenium-ide/ . It is an Integrated Development Environment(IDE) for test development and it ia a plug-in for firefox.
The test scripts can be recorded quite easily with its help. Apart from recorder the plug-in can be also used to run tests themselves, as well as for their debugging (using the option for executing the test step by step). The tests are recorded in HTML and table’s elements are used for describing the test-related data.
Selenium Remote Control(RC) allows you to write automated web application tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.
Selenium Remote Control is actually uses remotely controlled server ( like a proxy server)
Selenium Remote Control is actually uses remotely controlled server ( like a proxy server)
Selenium Core tests run directly in a browser, and simulates the real user. It runs in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. So it is a great tool for cross browser testing.
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