If you have already worked with test automation or if you have worked with someone who has worked with test automation, for sure, you have already heard the magic word Selenium—Selenium opens the browser, clicks, writes, does everything like a human, in a parallel, nicely distributed, multiplatform, and cross-browser way. In fact, Selenium is just a JAR file that contains an API to perform different operations on a browser (click, type, scroll, and so on).
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Check out Selenium's documentation at http://www.seleniumhq.org/ .
When this JAR file is executed, it connects to the specified browser, opens the API, and waits for the commands to be performed on the browser. The commands sent to the Selenium server can be performed in tons of different ways and languages.
There are a lot of existing implementations and frameworks that allow you to call selenium commands with couple lines of code:
- You can use the native Selenium's framework for Java ( http://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium...