Thursday, February 10, 2011

Automation Testing on WebApps with Selenium Free Tool

Selenium WebDriver is a portable, open-source software testing framework, released under the Apache 2.0 license, for web applications testing. Selenium 2.0 integrate the WebDriver API into Selenium-RC. By Java coding in WebDriver, JavaScript framework is actually running in your web browser, like Firefox, IE and Chrome. WebDriver can simulate a user navigating through pages and then assert for specific marks on the pages. So, I think it is perfect for web automation testing.

Let's see how to implement it:
1. Download Selenium server from Selenium website:
selenium-server-standalone-2.0b1.jar
2. Open eclipse, include this jar file to the library. Here assuming your computer installed all necessary software, like JRE, JDK, Ant, eclipse...
3. Start your java programming in eclipse now!

See, it's easy, and powerful!