Is Webdriver sufficent or I also have to learn Selenium RC and IDE?

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Permalink Reply by Master117 on February 9, 2012 at 12:54pm

knowledge is wealth, learn more!

it make difference if you know selenium 1.0 along with selenium 2 or webdriver, its interlinked in some cases and its backward compatible

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Permalink Reply by Anil kumar B on February 10, 2012 at 9:25am

I would suggest you first learn webdriver properly.. then move on to rc and ide.

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Permalink Reply by Wasiqul Huq on February 11, 2012 at 2:43pm

Selenium IDE is a tool to record your test cases and u can export the script in you desired language to run in on Selenium 1.0 which is RC and Selenium 2.0 which is WebDriver

Webdriver is advanced RC, if you are using WebDriver than there is not need to learn RC, both are same thing with more and less functionalities

If you need some guidance about configuring it in your environment than you can check my blog post

Testing Talks - http://mdwasiqulhuq.blogspot.com

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Permalink Reply by Master117 on February 13, 2012 at 7:04pm

Hi Wasigul:

technically what you said above is wrong!

"Webdriver is advanced RC, if you are using WebDriver than there is not need to learn RC, both are same thing with more and less functionalities", is not true!

Regards!

Master117

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Permalink Reply by Sitam Jana on February 16, 2012 at 5:57pm

Hi Pradeep,

Selenium webdriver and selenium RC both serve same purpose as they both support multiple scripting language to write automation test scripts , multiple operating system and multiple browsers to execute the automation test scripts.

Selenium RC and selenium webdriver is also known as selenium 1.0 and selenium 2.0 respectively. Selenium RC is the old version and selenium webdriver is the upgraded version. But the architecture of them two are completely different.

As you are learning selenium webdriver already, you need not to learn selenium RC. 

But you can learn selenium IDE because it will help you to develop your automation test script quickly and easily by its record and run facility. Here you need not to write much test scripts by your own. But in selenium RC or webdriver you have to write all the test cases by your own. So, you can go for the IDE.

If you have more confusions then please let me know.

Thanks and regards                                                                                                                               Sitam 

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Permalink Reply by Anil kumar B on February 16, 2012 at 6:13pm

If you can write code then I would suggest not to go with record and play back. There are lot many advantages if you write the automation code. Like when the dev application changes it would be really easy for you to update the xpaths in your xml or class file than rerecording the test case. Similarly, you can move all the commonly used tasks like login, click, double click functionalities into some common class files and reuse it in all your testcases. This way you will not have redundant code in your test project...

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Permalink Reply by Chinna on March 21, 2012 at 12:37pm

Selenium Rc and webdriver are both are different no need to learn rc . u have to knw ide . 

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Permalink Reply by Pradeep Singh on March 21, 2012 at 12:49pm

Hi Chinna,

Is it necessary to learn ide?If you know webdriver then why ide is required?I am just want to get suggestion....I don't know ide but know webdriver...so should i learn ide or no need to learn ide.

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Permalink Reply by Venu Madhav on March 28, 2012 at 5:53pm

Learn selenium IDE and then move to Selenium Web driver. Selenium RC is depricated as it is older version. Webdriver is the replacement for RC.

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