By admin - April, 3rd 2016

The popularity of Selenium as an automation test tool is undisputable and many manual testers and test managers are opting of this software testing tool nowadays. When more people are entering into this sector, competition also has become tougher and example being industries such as no deposit bingo. Proper guidance and perfect teaching can withstand the competition.

As a part of Selenium training, there are many training videos available on Selenium online training, which includes Selenium Interview questions too. There are many interview questions of Selenium available online. Here we are providing the most frequently asked Selenium Interview Questions for both beginners (freshers) and experienced.

 

1. What is automation testing?

The processes involved in automating the manual processes to test a system or an application is called as automation testing or test automation. Automation test involves the use of a testing tool which will allows you to create test scripts. These scripts can be executed repeatedly without any manual intervention.

 

2. Why should Selenium be selected as a test automation tool?

1. Selenium is a free and open source tool.
2. Its user base is larger and there are many helping communities.
3. It is compatible with many browsers including Google, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox etc.
4. It has multiple platform compatibility and can be run on Windows, Mac OS, Linux etc.
5. It supports multiple programming languages such as java, c++, ruby, python etc.
6. It supports distributed testing.
7. It has fresh and regular repository developments.

 

3. What is Selenium and what are its different components?

Selenium is an automated testing tool. It is rather a package of several testing tools and hence it is referred as suite. It is designed to support automation testing of functional aspects of web based applications. It is free and open source.

 

The suite is consisting of the following components or tools.Each of these tools are designed to different purposes and to cater different needs.

• Selenium Integrated Development Environment:- It is a record and playback tool which is being distributed as a firefox plugin.
• Selenium Remote Control:- It is a server that allows the user to create a test script. It also allows to distribute the scripts across browsers.
• Selenium Webdriver:- This tool has many advantages over Selenium Remote Control and it can communicate directly with the web browsers.
• Selenium Grid:- This tool helps to distribute your test execution on multiple platforms concurrently.

 

4. What are the testing types supported by Selenium?

Selenium supports two types of Testing, Functional Testing and Regression Testing.

 

5. When should you use Selenium IDE?

It is the simplest and easiest tool in the package and the record and playback option demands minimum knowledge in programming language. It is suitable for naive users.

 

6. What is Selenese?

It is the language, used to write scripts in Selenium IDE.

 

7. What is Xpath?

It is being used to locate a web element based on its xml path. It can be used to locate HTML elements too. XPath is actually a language used to navigate through an XML file. It’s used commonly to search particular factors or characteristic with corresponding patterns.

 

8. What is the difference between Single Slash “/” and Double Slash “//” in Xpath?

While using Single Slash, path will be created to start selection from the document node or start node. But when using Double Slash, the path will be created from anywhere in the document.

 

9. When should Selenium Grid be used?

This tool can be used to execute same or different scripts on multiple browsers and platforms concurrently.

 

10. What are Selenium 1 and Selenium 2?

When Selenium Remote Control and Selenium Webdriver are in a combination, it is called as Selenium 2. Selenium RC alone is called as Selenium 1.

 

Author Bio:

Karthik K is the founder of iTeLearn.com, an online software testing training institute that specializes in various software courses. Karthik is an expert in Selenium training and passionate to provide awesome Selenium interview questions for job seekers.