All About Automation Testing

In automation testing, both Quality Assurance (QA) testing and Selenium testing are two important and quite interwoven operations. But they have some differences. Quality Assurance testing , as the name implies, is the process of testing and monitoring a product to ensure that the finished product is created and built without defects or faults. When it comes to physical manufacturing, QA testing consists of statistical control, failure testing, amongst other industry-specific practices.

Here are some differences between QA testing and Selenium testing :

Selenium , on the other hand, can be used to automate functional tests, that is It can be integrated into the automation testing tools such as Jenkins, Maven and Docker, to achieve continuous testing. Selenium testing can also be integrated with tools such as TestNG and JUnit which are for managing test cases and generating reports.

We live in a computer age where customers are also familiar with the recent technological innovations. So this means that they understand that the presence of bugs in a newly developed software can be inevitable and they might want to wait to try and get a new app until other people have tested and verified the software or application. Some users are even comfortable submitting the big reports from their smartphones.

On the other hand, the main essence of Selenium testing is to run the test cases multiple times across browsers. The key features of Selenium testing to perform this function is Functional testing and Regression testing. Selenese is regarded as the main domain-specific language for Selenium, but yet many programming languages like Java, C#, Ruby, Python, PHP, Net, and so on, can also be used for writing test scripts. This, therefore, makes the tool user-friendly. Some of the tasks that a Selenium Web Driver can perform include Automation testing, Performance testing, Sanity Testing, Regression testing, Monitoring of applications, and Mobile testing. Performing these tasks is what makes Selenium a framework for automating applications.

Finally, it is advisable to also have prior knowledge of software testing techniques like functional testing and automation testing.