Selenium Remote Control

Selenium Remote Control (RC)

 Overview

• While Selenium IDE may seem a productive and efficient tool for writing test-cases, it lacks many essential features of a testing tool:
  • Conditional statements
  • Loops
  • Logging
  • Exception handling
  • Reporting
  • Test fixtures and data-driven tests
  • Test dependencies
  • Taking screenshots
• Selenium RC is the answer to a more powerful test-suite for your applications.
• It follows a client/server model allowing client libraries to execute tests on a browser controlled by the server.
  

Selenium Server

• Selenium server is the program that drives the browser
• It embeds Selenium Core framework and injects it into the browser
• It communicates with the running test client and drives the browser
• Client tests sends commands that the server interpretes in order to drive the browser
• The server sends back results to the client
• Client and server communicates via HTTP GETs and POSTs so you can easily plug into
• Server is configurable at startup via command-line options. use java -jar selenium-server.jar -h to see the list of options

Client libraries

• Client libraries provides the API to program tests and execute them on the server
• Each implementation provides access to all Selenium commands
• Supported API implementation exists in:
  • Java (also accessible via Groovy)
  • .Net
  • PHP
  • Python
  • Perl
  • Ruby