Introduction 2When selenium came to market there we just two components in
the beginning, those were:
- Selenium
IDE
- Selenium
RC
Selenium in Begining Selenium IDE + Selenium RC |
Selenium IDE was used for the automated test recording primarily. While RC was used to program automated test scrips, there were many languages which are supported by Selenium RC includingJava, Python, Javascript, C# etc.
IDE has versatile features apart from record and play, we can pass parameters, create loops eg. while loop,do programming in Javascript etc.
Selenium RC primarily had various drawbacks, so Google and Thoughtworks worked with each other and designed a new thing called Selenium webdriver.
The Selenium RC and webdriver are altogether different products. But Webdriver supports RC code.Many old companies are working on RC, so it is also necessary to learn RC to keep in phase with them.All new script development nowadays is done by using Selenium Webdriver. There are various languages which are supported by Webdriver like Java, Python, C#, Javascript etc, we can grill ourselves in one and start the learning of the tool.
So now there are three components of Selenium:1)Selenium IDE2)Selenium RC3)Selenium Webdriver
Please wait for my new posts for more clarifications, Post the comments here if you have any question,I would also post videos in my future post for training.Byee....