Selenium enables you to record a browser session. For example, you could record the series of actions required to add a product to a shopping cart or register at a website.
Platform and Browser Compatibility
Supported Platforms:
* Windows:
o Internet Explorer 6.0
o Firefox 0.8 to 1.5
o Mozilla Suite 1.6+, 1.7+
o Seamonkey 1.0
o Opera 8
* Mac OS X:
o Safari 1.3+
o Firefox 0.8 to 1.5
o Camino 1.0a1
o Mozilla Suite 1.6+, 1.7+
o Seamonkey 1.0
* Linux:
o Firefox 0.8 to 1.5
o Mozilla Suite 1.6+, 1.7+
o Konqueror
You can use Selenium to record each significant client-side action that a user performs in a browser such as clicking buttons and links and entering text into input fields. After you record a test, you can run the test with any browser. For example, you can execute the same test with Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera to check that your application is cross-browser compatible.
Downloading Selenium
There are three different Selenium downloads:
* Selenium IDE Enables you to record a browser session. The Selenium IDE is a Firefox extension so it only works with Firefox. However, tests that you create with the Selenium IDE can be run on other browsers including Internet Explorer and Opera.
* Selenium Core Enables you to run Selenium tests. You can use the Selenium Core library to execute a suite of tests from a browser.
* Selenium RC Enables you to remotely control a browser. Includes a C# wrapper for Selenium so that you can remotely control a browser from a C# application. Selenium RC is especially useful when used with unit testing tools such as nUnit.
Selenium is an open-source project (released under the Apache license) created by the developers at ThoughtWorks. You can download Selenium from the OpenQA website at
http://www.openqa.org/selenium/
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