Lets start automation

So many automation application is available today but 3 most popular is Selenium, Watir and Sahi. Lets start with Selenium as it is most popular, have a very strong community for support and many many tutorial is available over the web to start. Selenium many different parts for different type of functionality. I am gonna use Selenium IDE, Selenium RC and Selenium Webdriver or Selenium 2.0 and others I am ignoring at the moment.

Selenium IDE
- An add on for Mozilla Firefox
- Used for recording activity in browser in terms of web applications
- Can export automation script of variety range of programming language to use in RC/ Webdriver/ Selenium 2.0

Selenium RC/ Selenium Webdriver / Selenium 2.0 (Java)
- Selenim RC or Webdriver or 2.0 is actually is the same application
- RC is the older version with have limited functionality and Webdriver/ Selenium 2.0 is the latest with more functionality in terms of automation scripting
- Support programming languages, I am focusing only in Java
- Exported script of IDE can be Import here

So, lets roll on my next post ;)