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marifrahman
marifrahman

Reputation: 690

What is best Selenium tool to Automate tests?

I have just started with Selenium to automate couple of tests and have found that there are couple of tools that I can choose from, like the Selenium IDE, Selenium WebDriver, Selenium RC, WebDriver Backed Selenium. I have created the test cases on Selenium IDE and its easiest to create the test cases using it for a non developer. Then I have exported them for C#/Nunit/Webdriver; But it seems I get lots of differences while translating from IDE to WebDriver.

Can anybody suggest if I am on the right track to go ahead or please suggest if otherwise.

If the suggestion is for WebDriver then should I just go with Selenium WebDriver for DotNet(as a C# developer) or I should choose WebDriver backed Selenium.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2664

Answers (4)

El General Magnifico
El General Magnifico

Reputation: 107

I dont think it makes sense to recommend java to a c# developer:D If you want to use selenium and c# I suggest you check LightBDD framework (really brilliant but needs you to be skilled at c# itself) and combine that with PageObject approach.

Upvotes: 1

Anton
Anton

Reputation: 11

Selenium IDE is still useful for rapidity. In Selenium IDE, click,record and save the test script then still in Selenium IDE, export it to your favored language, e.g. python or nodeJS, etc then open the exported selenium IDE code in the editor of that webdriver language format, run the test again then fix the inevitable errors you see.e.g. for every ,say 20 lines of selenium IDE code you exported to, say python, you will see, say, 5 lines of code that will need to be fixed, but it still saves time specially for beginner automators.

Upvotes: 1

Himanshu
Himanshu

Reputation: 648

The best way is to use Webdriver is with Java.

You can choose Java for writing tests, TestNG for test framework and Maven to build your test Jars making it machine independent. Maven will packaeg all your stuff into one Zip file.

But since you are begineer, choose webdriver for your automation. It can be used with either Java or C#.

Upvotes: 0

Buddha
Buddha

Reputation: 4476

Don't bother building tests using Selenium IDE, you will loose chance of building modular tests if you do so. If application changes in future, you will have to modify all your tests independently.

Your best bet is to use Selenium Webdriver with C# and also use some test framework like NUnit, so that non developers can run the tests using NUnit GUI using simple interface, that is the best approach I found so far.

Upvotes: 4

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