selenium-resources

by Stefan Eletzhofer — last modified Jan 29, 2007 08:13 PM

Stuff yoo need to know to get selenium RC running on the mac

Whats that selenium stuff all about, anyway?

Selenium and its server based version, Selenium RC, are meant to be used for performing functional tests by means of remote control a web browser.

Selenium itself is written in java (which I dont have any knowledge of), and Selenium RC is using the Selenium core embedded in a web server.

You can read more about that here (selenium)
and here (selenium rc)

Selenium IDE

This is a Firefox extension which makes using Selenium in Firefox relly fun. Download it here

Starting selenium

To start the selenium rc server issue:

  java -jar selenium-server.jar <options>

<options> being one of

 -help

 -forcedBrowserMode <browser>