Selenium Requests

Selenium, a project hosted by the Apache Software Foundation, is an umbrella open-source project comprising a variety of tools and libraries for test automation. Selenium automation framework enables QA engineers to perform automated web application testing using popular programming languages like Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, Ruby, and PHP.

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Do you know the test automation market is all set to hit $35 billion by 2026? And when it comes to cross browser testing, JavaScript leads from the front? Javascript is probably the best alternative for Selenium automation, considering its protocol transformation to the W3C standard. In order to make the most of it, the first step is to choose the best test automation frameworks. Among all the JavaScript testing frameworks, two frameworks are most popular- Nightwatch and Protractor.

CI/CD has been gaining a lot of attraction & is probably one of the most talked topics for the novices in DevOps. With the availability of CI/CD tools available in the market, configuring and operating a CI/CD pipeline has become a lot easier than what it was 5-6 years ago. Back then there were no containers and the only CI/CD tool that dominated the sphere was Jenkins. Jenkins provided you with a task runner, so you could define your jobs to run either sequentially or in parallel.

During the course of automated cross browser testing, you might come across scenarios that may not have been thought about during the product development phase. For example, when using Selenium automation testing, you could open a new browser tab instead of a new browser instance. Implementing that change would need proper usage of Keyboard Actions in Selenium WebDriver. This will also depend on whether the browser on which testing is performed and whether the Selenium WebDriver for the corresponding browser supports those functionalities.