STUDY ON FUNCTIONING OF SELENIUM TESTING TOOL

Automation testing tool is evolving field which provide maximum benefits to the software market by minimalizing efforts as well as cost for testing a software. In today's word, there are numerous programming languages namely Java, python, Ruby, C++ etc. and rare automated testing tools which works on most of languages. So selenium brings all these common language to the market. Now a tester can opt any of these languages to work with. There are a lot more features of selenium which makes it comfortable for tester to execute a test cross such as it supports multiple platforms and browsers. Selenium is one such tool which is an open source so it’s easy to install and even cost effective tool. There are many review papers regarding automation tools and selenium but none was able to provide all the specified features of selenium, which is an open source so its demand in market is very high from the time it was developed. The basic goal of this review Paper is to provide a brief knowledge of the automation testing tool which becomes a crucial part of the institutions, organizations and industries such as e-commerce, travel, biotech, pharmaceuticals etc. This review paper focuses on filling the gaps between few research papers by highlighting the need and features of selenium