Selenium Job Interview Questions & Answers

1. What is Selenium?

• Selenium is a Suite of Software tools to automate Web browsers.

  (Selenium automates Web Applications only, doesn't automate Desktop Applications).

 • Selenium Supports various Operating environments.

   (MS Windows, Linux, Macintosh etc...)

• Selenium suite of Tools mainly used for Functional and Regression Testing.

2. What are the Advantages of Selenium?

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• Supports various Programming Languages to write Test Sceipts

• Supports various Browsers to create and execute Test Cases/Test Scripts.

• Supports various Operating environments to conduct Testing.

• Supports Parallel Test execution.

3.How to enhance Test Cases in Selenium WebDriver?

Using Programming (either Java or Python or Ruby or PHP or Perl or C#) and Testing framework Annotations (either JUnit or TestNG etc...) we can enhance Test Cases.

4. What is Selenium Grid?

Selenium-Grid support distributed test execution, It allows us run our tests on different machines against different browsers in parallel. That is, running multiple tests at the same time against different machines running different browsers and operating systems.

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5.What are the Disadvantages of Selenium?

• No reliable Technical support

• Supports Web based / Browser based Applications only

• No built-in Result Reporting facility.

• New features may not work properly.

6. What is TestNG and usage of TestNG in Selenium?

TestNG is a Testing Framework similar to JUnit or NUnit used to group Test cases, run Test batches, parameterizing Tests, and its provide detailed html Test reports.

7.How to conduct Database Testing with Selenium WebDriver?

With the help of programming features we can connect to any Database Management System (Ex: Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL etc...) and conduct Database Testing.

8. What is Selenium RC? (* outdated Tool)

Selenium Remote Control (RC) is a test tool that allows us to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.