1.
What is Selenium and what is
composed of?
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Selenium IDE (Integrated
Development Environment) : It is a tool for
recording and playing back. It is a firefox plugin
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WebDriver and RC:
It provide the APIs for a variety of languages like Java, .NET, PHP, etc. With
most of the browsers Webdriver and RC works.
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Grid: With
the help of Grid you can distribute tests on multiple machines so that test can
be run parallel which helps in cutting down the time required for running in
browser test suites
2.
What is Selenium 2.0 ?
Web testing tools Selenium RC and WebDriver are consolidated in
single tool in Selenium 2.0
3. Mention what is Selenium 3.0?
Selenium 3.0 is the latest version of Selenium. It has
released 2 beta versions of selenium 3.0 with few of the below changes:
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Beta 1 updates
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Beta 2 updates (Only for Java)
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Minimum java
version is now 8+
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System property
webdriver.firefox.marionette now forces the server in marionette or legacy
firefox driver mode, ignoring any related Desired Capability
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It will support
for Firefox Via Mozilla’s geckodriver
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Grid fixes NPE’s
on registration when -browser not specified
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Support for Edge
is provided by MS
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It now supports
Safari on MacOS via Apple’s own Safari driver
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Update
GeckoDriver –port argument in all bindings
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Here are few new features added to Selenium 3.0
4. How will you find an element using Selenium?
In Selenium every object or control in a web page is
referred as an elements, there are different ways to find an element in a web
page they are
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ID
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Name
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Tag
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Attribute
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CSS
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Linktext
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PartialLink Text
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Xpath etc
