Selenium Software Testing Framework

A Selenium Software Testing Framework is an open source web browser automation software testing framework that can support web application testing tasks by Selenium Project.

• AKA: Selenium Framework, Selenium Software, Selenium (Software), Selenium WebDriver Framework.
• Context:
  • It can typically automate Web Browser Interactions through selenium webdriver APIs and selenium browser drivers.
  • It can typically execute Web Application Tests through selenium test scripts and selenium test executors.
  • It can typically support Cross-Browser Testing through selenium browser compatibilitys and selenium multi-browser drivers.
  • It can typically provide Language Bindings through selenium client libraryes for Java, Python, C#, Ruby, JavaScript, and other programming languages.
  • It can typically enable Test Automation through selenium automation scripts and selenium test framework integrations.
  • It can typically implement W3C WebDriver Protocol through selenium webdriver specifications and selenium protocol implementations.
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  • It can often facilitate Remote Testing through Selenium Server and Selenium Grid for distributed test execution.
  • It can often support Parallel Test Execution through selenium grid nodes and selenium hub configurations.
  • It can often enable Mobile Testing through Appium integrations and mobile browser testings.
  • It can often provide Record-and-Playback Testing through Selenium IDE for test script generation.
  • It can often integrate CI/CD Pipelines through selenium continuous integrations and selenium build tools.
  • It can often handle Dynamic Web Elements through selenium wait strategyes and selenium element locators.
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  • It can range from being a Selenium WebDriver to being a Selenium Grid, depending on its selenium deployment architecture.
  • It can range from being a Selenium IDE to being a Selenium WebDriver, depending on its selenium test creation method.
  • It can range from being a Local Selenium Testing to being a Cloud-Based Selenium Testing, depending on its selenium execution environment.
  • It can range from being a Selenium 3 to being a Selenium 4, depending on its selenium version capability.
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  • It can implement Element Locator Strategyes through selenium By classes including ID locators, name locators, XPath locators, CSS selectors, and tag name locators.
  • It can manage Browser Drivers through Selenium Manager for automated driver managements and browser binary locations.
  • It can handle Synchronization Issues through implicit waits, explicit waits, and fluent waits.
  • It can support Page Object Model through selenium design patterns and test maintainability.
  • It can enable Headless Testing through headless browser modes and selenium headless drivers.
  • It can provide Screenshot Capabilitys through selenium screenshot methods and failure documentation.
  • It can support Action Chains through selenium action classes for complex interactions.
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• Example(s):
  • Selenium Components, such as:
    • Selenium WebDriver for browser automation APIs with W3C WebDriver compliance.
    • Selenium Grid for distributed test execution with hub-node architecture.
    • Selenium IDE for browser extension testing with record-and-playback capability.
    • Selenium Manager for driver management with automatic download capability.
  • Selenium Language Bindings, such as:
    • Selenium Java for Java-based web testing with JUnit integration and TestNG integration.
    • Selenium Python for Python-based web testing with pytest integration and unittest integration.
    • Selenium C# for .NET web testing with NUnit integration and MSTest integration.
    • Selenium Ruby for Ruby-based web testing with RSpec integration and Cucumber integration.
    • Selenium JavaScript for Node.js web testing with Mocha integration and Jest integration.
  • Selenium-Based Frameworks, such as:
    • Selenide Framework for fluent API testing with automatic wait handling.
    • Serenity BDD Framework for behavior-driven testing with Selenium integration.
    • WebDriverIO Framework for JavaScript web testing with Selenium protocol support.
    • Protractor Framework for Angular testing with Selenium WebDriver wrapper.
  • Selenium Grid Configurations, such as:
    • Standalone Mode Selenium for single machine testing with all-in-one deployment.
    • Hub and Node Selenium for distributed testing with multiple node configuration.
    • Docker Selenium for containerized testing with Docker image deployment.
    • Kubernetes Selenium for cloud-native testing with Helm chart deployment.
  • Selenium Cloud Services, such as:
    • BrowserStack for cloud-based Selenium testing with real device testing.
    • Sauce Labs for cloud Selenium Grid with cross-browser testing.
    • LambdaTest for cloud test automation with Selenium support.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Cypress Framework, which uses direct browser control rather than WebDriver protocol.
  • Playwright Framework, which provides multi-browser support but uses different automation protocols.
  • Puppeteer Framework, which focuses on Chrome-only automation without cross-browser support.
  • Manual Testing Processes, which lack automation capability and programmatic control.
  • API Testing Frameworks, which test backend services without browser automation.
• See: Cross-Platform, Software Testing, Software Framework, Web Application, Scripting Language, Domain-Specific Language, Software Testing Framework, WebDriver, Browser Automation, Test Automation, Open Source Software, Apache License 2.0.

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References

2020

• (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium_(software) Retrieved:2020-2-13.
  • Selenium is a portable framework for testing web applications. Selenium provides a playback tool for authoring functional tests without the need to learn a test scripting language (Selenium IDE). It also provides a test domain-specific language (Selenese) to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including C#, Groovy, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala. The tests can then run against most modern web browsers. Selenium runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It is open-source software released under the Apache License 2.0.

2016

• http://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/01_introducing_selenium.jsp
  • QUOTE: Selenium is a set of different software tools each with a different approach to supporting test automation. Most Selenium QA Engineers focus on the one or two tools that most meet the needs of their project, however learning all the tools will give you many different options for approaching different test automation problems. The entire suite of tools results in a rich set of testing functions specifically geared to the needs of testing of web applications of all types. These operations are highly flexible, allowing many options for locating UI elements and comparing expected test results against actual application behavior. One of Selenium’s key features is the support for executing one’s tests on multiple browser platforms.

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