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Selenium can be used for multi-user load testing, but it requires significant hardware resources. It is better to use a dedicated load testing tool like BrowserMob, which leverages Selenium to perform load testing using real browsers. Selenium performs actions by modifying the DOM and executing JavaScript in the browser, rather than directly simulating user actions. While this allows headless testing, it is not a true simulation of end user behavior like some other tools claim to provide.

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Selenium Interview Questions 1

Selenium can be used for multi-user load testing, but it requires significant hardware resources. It is better to use a dedicated load testing tool like BrowserMob, which leverages Selenium to perform load testing using real browsers. Selenium performs actions by modifying the DOM and executing JavaScript in the browser, rather than directly simulating user actions. While this allows headless testing, it is not a true simulation of end user behavior like some other tools claim to provide.

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Selenium Interview Questions with Answers

1) Which is the command used for displaying the values of a


variable into the output console or log?
The command used for displaying the values of a variable into the output
console or logecho
If you want to display a constant string. The below mentioned command
can be used
echo <constant string>
ex: echo The sample message
If you want to display the value of a variable it can be written like below
echo ${<<variable name>>
ex: echo ${var1}
2) What are the capabilities of Selenium WebDriver or Google
WebDriver or Selenium 2.0?
Capabilities of Selenium WebDriver or Google WebDriver or Selenium 2.0
are:
One should use WebDriver when requiring improved support for
1. Multi-browser testing including improved functionality for browsers not
well-supported by Selenium-1.0.
2. Handling multiple frames, multiple browser windows, pop-ups, and
alerts.
3. Page navigation.
4. Drag-and-drop.
5. AJAX-based UI elements.
3) Which are the browsers supported by Selenium RC?
Browsers supported by Selenium RC are:
1. *firefox
2. *mock
3. *firefoxproxy 4. *pifirefox 5. *chrome
6. *iexploreproxy 7. *iexplore 8. *firefox3
9. *safariproxy
10. *googlechrome
11. *conqueror
12. *firefox2
13. *safari 14.
*piiexplore 15. *firefoxchrome
16. *opera 17. *iehta 18.
*custom
4) What are the Operating Systems supported by Selenium?
Operating Systems supported by Selenium are:
Selenium IDE
Works in Firefox 2+ Start browser, run tests Run tests
Operating Systems Supported:
1. Windows,
2. OS X
3. Linux
4.
Solaris
5. Others whichever supports Firefox 2+
Selenium Remote Control
Used for starting browser and run tests
Operating Systems Supported:
1. Windows,
2. OS X
3. Linux
Others

4. Solaris

5.

Selenium Core
Used for running tests
Operating Systems Supported:
1. Windows,
2. OS X
Others

3. Linux

4. Solaris

5.

5) What is the difference between an assert and a verify with


Selenium commands?
Assert: Will fail and abort the current test execution.
Verify: Will fail and continue to run the test execution.
6) If a Selenium function requires a script argument, what would
that argument look like in general terms?
StoreEval(script, variable) and storeExpression(expression, variableName).
7) If a Selenium function requires a pattern argument, what five
prefixes might that argument have?
Five prefixes that Selenium pattern argument are:
glob, regexp, exact, regexpi.
8) Why Selenium RC is used?
We use Selenium RC for:
Selenium-IDE does not directly support:
1. Condition statements.
2. Iteration.
3. Logging and reporting of test results.
4. Error handling, particularly unexpected errors.
5. Database testing.
6. Test case grouping.
7. Re-execution of failed tests.
8. Test case dependency.
9. Capture screen shots on test failures.
The reason behind why Selenium-IDE does not support the above
mentioned requirements is IDE supports only HTML language. Using HTML
language we cannot achieve the above mentioned requirements. Because
HTML does not support conditional, looping and external source
connectives.
To overcome the above mentioned problems Selenium RC is used.
9) How many testing frameworks can QA Tester use in Selenium
RC?
Testing frameworks arent required, but they can be helpful if QA Tester
wants to automate test cases. Selenium RC supports Bromine, JUnit,
NUnit, RSpec (Ruby), Test::Unit (Ruby), TestNG (Java) and unit test
(Python).
10) What is the architecture of Selenium RC?
The Selenium Server launches and kills browsers and acts as an HTTP
proxy for browser requests.
Client libraries for various programming languages, each of which

instructs the Selenium Server in how to test the AUT by passing it your
test scripts Selenium commands.
The client libraries communicate with the Server passing each Selenium
command for execution. Then the server passes the Selenium command
to the browser using Selenium-Core JavaScript commands. The browser,
using its JavaScript interpreter, executes the Selenium command, which
effectively, runs the check you specified in your Selenese test script.
11) Does Selenium support mobile internet testing?
Selenium supports Opera and opera is used in most of the Smart phones.
So whichever Smart phone supports opera, selenium can be used to test.
So, one can use Selenium RC to run the tests on mobiles.
12) What are the basic annotations used to run TestNG tests in
Selenium?
The basic annotations used to run TestNG tests in Selenium RC:
1. @BeforeClass: The annotated method with @BeforeClass will be run
before the first test method in the current class is invoked.
2. @AfterClass: The annotated method with @AfterClass will be run after
all the test methods in the current class have been run.
3. @BeforeMethod: The annotated method with @BeforeMethod will be
run before each test method.
4. @AfterMethod: The annotated method with @AfterMethod will be run
after each test method.
5. @Test: Marks a class or a method @Test with as part of the test.
13) What is the difference between Thread.Sleep() and
Selenium.setSpeed()?
Selenium.setSpeed:
1. takes a single argument in string format
ex: selenium.setSpeed(2000) will wait for 2 seconds
2. Runs each command in after setSpeed delay by the number of
milliseconds mentioned in setSpeed.
Thread.sleep:
1. takes a single argument in integer format
ex: thread.sleep(2000) will wait for 2 seconds
2. Waits for only once at the command given at sleep.
14) How to configure Selenium RC with eclipse to run Junit Tests?
1) Download eclipse. click here to download the software
2) Open eclipse -> Workspace Launcher window will open
3) Create a workspace by giving meaningful name
3) Click on Workbench
4) Create a project of type java
5) Create a package under src folder of the package
6) Add Junit to the build path
7) Add selenium rc java client driver to the build path
8) Now drag and drop your test script (.which is exported from Selenium
IDE) to the package created.

15) Actual end user simulation, Is the test conducted using this
tool equivalent to an end user action?
Selenium performs actions in the background on the browser. It modifies
the DOM structure of the HTML page in order to perform actions on the
page. To be more precise it executes JavaScript on UI objects within the
webpage to perform actions like click, type, select etc. This is the reason
why you can execute tests with the browser minimized.
QTP claims to perform end user simulation, in other words executing QTP
scripts are equivalent to a person performing those steps manually on the
application.
16) Is it possible to use Selenium for multi-user Load Testing?
Yes, but it requires a LOT of hardware. We recommend you check out
BrowserMob, which does load testing with real browsers and is powered
by Selenium.

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