Selenium and QTP are the foremost frequent used automation test tools within the market. Hence, we’ve compared a number of the features of Selenium over QTP.

Features	Selenium	HP QTP
License	Open-source tool	Required
Customer support	Dedicated HP support	Selenium community forums
Test Support	Supports automation only for web-based applications.	Support tests on both web and desktop-based applications.
Resource consumption during test scripts execution	Low resource consumption	High resource consumption
Supported programming languages	Java, C#, Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP and JavaScript	VB Script.
Supported Environments	Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris.	Only for Windows
Supported Browsers	Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge, Opera, Safari, etc.	Specific versions of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Object Repository/Recovery Scenario	Absent	Built-in object repository and recovery scenario.
Browser Controls	None	Controls like favourites bar, backward and forward buttons can be accessed within the browser.
Test Report Generation	It relies on external tool for generating test reports.	Built-in test report generation within the tool.
Parameterization	You have to rely on any one of the supported programming languages for parameterization.	Built-in tools are available for parameterization.

Selenium Tool Suite

Selenium isn’t just one tool but a set of software, each with a special approach to support automation testing. It comprises of 4 major components which include:
1. Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
2. Selenium remote (Now Deprecated)
3. WebDriver
4. Selenium Grid

1.Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Selenium IDE is implemented as Firefox extension which provides record and playback functionality on test scripts. It allows testers to export recorded scripts in many languages like HTML, Java, Ruby, RSpec, Python, C#, JUnit and TestNG. you’ll use this exported script in Selenium RC or Webdriver.
>Selenium IDE has limited scope and therefore the generated test scripts aren’t very robust and portable.

2. Selenium remote

Selenium RC (officially deprecated by selenium) allows testers to write down automated web application UI test in any of the supported programming languages. It also involves an HTTP proxy server which enables the browser to believe that the online application being tested comes from the domain provided by proxy server.
Selenium RC comes with two components.
1. Selenium RC Server (acts as a HTTP proxy for web requests).
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2. Selenium RC Client (library containing your programing language code).
The figure given below shows the architectural representation of Selenium RC.

Selenium RC had been considered quite effective for testing complex AJAX-based web user interfaces under endless Integration System.

3. Selenium WebDriver

Selenium WebDriver (Selenium 2) is that the successor to Selenium RC and is far and away the foremost important component of Selenium Suite. Selenium WebDriver provides a programming interface to make and execute test cases. Test scripts are written so as to spot web elements on sites then desired actions are performed on those elements.
Selenium WebDriver performs much faster as compared to Selenium RC because it makes direct calls to the online browsers. RC on the opposite hand needs an RC server to interact with the online browser.
Since, WebDriver directly calls the methods of various browsers hence we’ve separate driver for every browser. a number of the foremost widely used web drivers include:
• Mozilla Firefox Driver (Gecko Driver)
• Google Chrome Driver
• Internet Explorer Driver
• Opera Driver
• Safari Driver
• HTML Unit Driver (a special headless driver)

4. Selenium Grid

Selenium Grid is additionally a crucial component of Selenium Suite which allows us to run our tests on different machines against different browsers in parallel. In simple words, we will run our tests simultaneously on different machines running different browsers and operating systems.
Selenium Grid follows the Hub-Node Architecture to realize parallel execution of test scripts. The Hub is taken into account as master of the network and therefore the other are going to be the nodes. Hub controls the execution of test scripts on various nodes of the network.

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• The average salary of a Selenium Test Automation Engineer is $94k per year – Indeed.com.
• Automation Testing Market is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 18.0% in the next three years.
• Global software testing market to reach $50 billion by 2020 – NASSCOM. Selenium tool supports more browsers and languages than any other testing tool.

What you will Learn in this Course?

Getting started with Selenium

• Introduction to Selenium testing
• Significance of automation testing
• Comparison of Manual and Automation Testing
• Installation of Java JDK, JRE and Eclipse

Setting the environment in Eclipse for Selenium

• Java Introduction
• Creating a Java function and executing
• Concepts of Java
• Properties File
• Reading Data from Excel File
• Database Connection
• Hands On

Advantages of Selenium automation testing

• Selenium Features
• Concept of Selenium Integrated Development Environment
• Understanding of the Selenium IDE features
• Addition of Script assertions and general commands
• Deploying the first Selenium Script
• Sample project IDE
• Recording Selenium test case
• Hands On

Selenium Web driver Automation

• Architecture of Selenium Web Driver
• Download and installation
• Creating a Java function using Selenium and execution
• Hands On

Deploying Web Drivers for scripting

• Getting the HTML source of Web Element
• Table and Form Elements
• Firebug extension and Fire Path installation
• Advance User Interactions and Cross Browser Testing
• Hands On

Deep dive into Selenium Web Driver

• Action Commands
• Web Table / Date Picker
• How to Implement Switching Commands in WebDriver
• Alerts
• Frames
• Hands On

Switching Operations in WebDriver using Window

• Selenium Webdriver Wait
• Implicit wait, Explicit wait
• Deploying searching elements using the link text, name, using XPath
• Calendar
• Hands On

Introduction to TestNG Framework

• Introduction to TestNG
• Advantages of TestNG
• Installing TestNG on Eclipse
• Rules to write TestNG
• TestNG Features
• Annotations
• Grouping
• Sequencing: Prioritization and Dependency
• Enable/Disable a test case
• Parameterization: Using Xml file and DataProvider
• Parallel Testing & Cross Browser Testing
• TestNG Report: HTML Report, Console Report, XML Report

JUnit Operations and Test Framework

• Annotations, Methods in JUnit
• Junit Test Suites, ANT Build and JUNIT reporting
• Types of Test Automation Framework
• Module Based Testing Framework
• Data Driven Testing Framework
• Keyword Driven Testing Framework
• Hybrid Driven Testing Framework
• How to implement Testing Framework in Project

Object Repository

• Understanding of Object Repository
• Learning sample scripts using object repository
• Page Object Modelling
• Page Factory

JavaScript Functions

• Autosuggestion
• Headless Browser
• Sikuli
• XPath

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