Selenium Introduction

What is Selenium:

Selenium is an Automation Testing Framework which automates web applications for testing purposes.
It is an open source and mainly used for automating functional tests and regression tests.

Note: It can be integrated with automation test tools such as Maven, Jenkins, & Docker to achieve continuous testing. It can also be integrated with tools such as TestNG, & JUnit for running test cases and generating reports.

Features of selenium:

Selenium is popular because of the below features:

1. Selenium is an Open-Source.
2. Selenium supports multiple languages like Java, C#, python, Ruby, Perl, Php, Java script.
3. Supports multiple browsers like IE, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera etc., (cross browser testing)
4. Supports multiple Operating Systems like Windows, Mac, Linux etc., (Cross platform testing)
5. Selenium supports for mobile platforms android and iOS
6. Supports parallel test execution
7. It can be integrated with other automation tools such as Maven, Jenkins and Docker etc.,
8. Can be integrated with test management tools such as Jira and ALM

Limitations of Selenium:

Below are the limitations with selenium but we can we can overcome these using some integration tools:

1. Selenium does not support automation testing for desktop applications
2. We should know at least one of the supported programming languages
3. Selenium does not have any inbuilt reporting capability
4. It does not have built-in Object Repository
5. It is not possible to perform testing on images
6. Since Selenium is open source software, you have to rely on community forums to get your technical issues resolved