What is the Selenium Framework? And How Do I Begin Using Selenium?
Selenium Framework is a portable set of tools for automating web application testing. Selenium, one of the most well-known and widely available platforms, is interoperable with all major browsers and operating systems. Selenium is an open-source web testing framework that is presently in beta version 4.0. The suite does not consist of a single framework. Rather, it may be expanded into a variety of frameworks. It provides a wide range of tools and customizations, making it the ideal automated testing framework for a wide range of use cases.
Consider the following scenario for a manual tester: determining whether the web app's signup page (www.example.com/signup) validates input strings and properly registers a user in the newest versions of Chrome and Firefox on Windows 7.
Why do you need Selenium Testing?Assume the signup page has the following input fields: username, email address, and password. The tester will be given a Windows 7 desktop and will proceed through the following procedures on the most recent versions of Chrome and Firefox:
> In the address box, type the URL (www.example.com/signup).
> Fill each each input field with an incorrect string (email, username, and password)
> Check to see if the input texts were checked against relevant regexes and any previously stored values in the database.
> Fill in the 'valid' texts in each input field; then click. Register
> Check to see if the "Welcome, "username"" page appeared.
> Check to see if the system database generated a new userID for"username."
> Mark the test as 'failed' if the signup functionality broke at any point throughout the test.
That is a pretty simple system test. In the actual world, testers are more likely to examine all user processes on www.example.com for broken links, on as many OS-browser combinations as are required to achieve benchmarked compatibility criteria.
It might take anything from hours to weeks to ensure that the web app is completely working, depending on the number of human testers (and the quality of the test cases). Modern developers and product teams may not have that amount of time to devote to testing, but they also cannot devote that much time to rigorous testing.
Can Selenium Be Used To Automate APIs?
Selenium is intended to automate an application's front end. It is NOT intended to automate API testing. I've seen numerous postings on this topic where writers demonstrate how they automated APIs with Selenium. They conduct API automation with RestAssured or Apache HTTP Client (both for Java). You are not performing API automation with Selenium. You are doing so by expanding your framework. API testing using these modules is intended to automate APIs in the same way that Selenium automates the front end. Yes, if Selenium allows you to automate API calls without relying on third-party libraries. Selenium automates API testing. However, Selenium is currently only used on the front end.
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