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Locators in Selenium Webdriver

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 Introduction to Locators We all know that a website contains a number of elements so it's typical to find any specific element on a webpage. So in Selenium we have Locators which helps to find elements from the website. Locators  are defined as a unique command that is used to identify web elements with in the webpage. Which is used to instruct Selenium IDE which GUI element like- Button, textbox, checkbox, alerts, input-fields needs to be operated. As GUI elements are predefined but in automation selecting an accurate GUI element being a typical task. If you chose a wrong GUI element then your task will not be performed it will show an error like " element not found". Therefore, before executing any task ensure that you have selected a correct locator. Now after understanding this, let's dive deeper into various types of  Locators. After entering into a webpage you need to have an accurate approach of selecting a web element. And here you will get a number of web-e

Introduction to Selenium Automated Testing

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 Introduction: Selenium is an free-source automated testing framework used for testing of software or web application and validating the web application across different browsers & platforms. For Selenium test script you can use different programming languages like java, python, ruby, C#, PHP etc...  Selenium is not a single tool, it's a set of tools which helps the tester to automate web-applications more efficiently. So let's discuss a bit about them: Selenium Integrated Development Environment(IDE) Selenium Remote-Control(RC) Selenium WebDriver Selenium Grid. From last few time Selenium RC and WebDriver are merged into a single framework to perform Selenium2 and Selenium1. Introduction to Selenium IDE:- Selenium IDE (i.e. Integrated Development Environment) is the easiest framework to learn in the selenium suit. Selenium IDE was created in 2006 by Shinya Kasatani who is from Japan. Selenium IDE is basically a Firefox extension which is used to record and playback test