Selenium- A Suite of Software Testing Framework
One of the common jargon used on day to day basis in our computer world is “framework”. Many of you might be already knowing about frameworks and Selenium is a suite of many software testing frameworks. Basically, Selenium serves as a well-defined structure to organize your project in a well-defined manner so as to avoid the messing up of the codes and data. Most of the time codes and data are not in a position for reuse because of their poor organization. Poor readability is another problem that comes into the act with such clumsy organization of your content, which happens usually with clients.
Rather than just a software testing framework, Selenium is a portable software testing framework. You get a suit of the frameworks in Selenium from which you can select the framework apt for your purpose. “Data-driven framework”, “keyword framework” and “hybrid framework” are the three main frameworks constituting Selenium. Hybrid is the combination of both data-driven as well as keyword framework. We mainly make use of “TestNG framework” and here test NG reflects the future generation. The Test NG framework is a hybrid one which aggregates the features of both J unit as well as N unit.
One of the helpful features of the TestNG framework is that we can get the individual count of passed test cases, failed test cases and also of skipped test cases in the generated report. And the best thing is we can just run the failed test cases afterward which removes the usual hectic chaos after report generations. The testing in test engine framework is done with the help of “XML file”(Extensible Markup Language). All the test cases written in the XML files are viewable from this test suite. Another helpful feature of this framework is that you can organize your test cases in specific classes required for a specific project and can run them in parallel.
One of the main features in this framework is the availability of “parameterization” and plenty of “data provider annotations”. This helps in carrying out independent execution and can also test in multiple browsers irrespective of their versions. Assertion is quite one important feature of Selenium as it helps us to verify the tests we carried out. If the obtained result is equal to the actual result, the product is considered to be have been passed assertion. These unique features make Selenium a most preferred testing software among professionals. Go on with Selenium for easy testing and impress your clients with a bug-free product.
