Why selenium is known as portable software testing framework?

Question

Why selenium is known as portable software testing framework?

Answer 1

Specifically, it is Selenium WebDriver and Selenium RC (now superceded by WebDriver) that are portable. Selenium WebDriver is a code library.



When you write code that uses Selenium WebDriver, you can specify the desired browser by instantiating the appropriate browser object. Which can be FireFox, Internet Explorer, Chrome or other browser. Other exact same commands work on any browser. This means that you write and test your automation code on one browser, say FireFox. Then just change the browser driver object and have the same code run on another browser. This is how Selenium is portable.

Answer 2

Selenium is a portable software testing framework for web applications. Selenium provides a record/playback tool for authoring tests without learning a test scripting language (Selenium IDE). It also provides a test domain-specific language (Selenese)[1] to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including Java, C#, Groovy, Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby. The tests can then be run against most modern web browsers. Selenium deploys on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh platforms. It is open-source software, released under the Apache 2.0 license, and can be downloaded and used without charge.

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Answer 3

As per my understanding.. A portable software/system is a program designed to run on a compatible computer without being installed in a computer. You just need to configure it and user it.

Answer 4

Because it runs everywhere, you just need to configure it on your system.