Intro To Selenium

Selenium Architecture

Manish ChakravartyThoughtWorks Studios

23/05/09

© ThoughtWorks 2009

Introduction to Selenium Architecture


Selenium Core <-> Selenium Server


- Preparation of FF and IE for testing

- Selenium uses AJAX to pull command from Selenium Server

Selenium Server <-> Selenium Driver


- Communication over HTTP

- Commands are posted to /selenium-server/driver

- The posted command has to agree – “do”, “is”, “get”

Modes

- “pifirefox”

- “piexplore”

- “iehta”

- “chrome”


Proxy Injection Mode


Server

Core(JS)

Web Browser

Web Server

ProxyServer

Proxy Injection Mode


Limitations and Other Alternatives


- Slow

- Restriction on parameters being passed

- Not easily extendable - You can writer your own use extensions though

Thanks!

Q&A

http://groups.google.com/group/indian-selenium-users-group


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