Abstracts Computer Science

Browser-based automation testing using selenium webdriver

by Md.Foyzur Rahman

This thesis deals with automation testing for any web applications on different web browsers using Selenium WebDriver. Automating web applications has been a very important and challenging issue now-a-days for QA engineers and software developers testing web applications. This thesis also briefly describes the advantages and disadvantages of automation and manual testing and in which test cases they can be applied to achieve high quality software. This thesis focuses on automating Gmail on the Firefox and Chrome browsers. Considering the requirements for test automation, Selenium WebDriver is an open source tool that can mimic a real end user and was chosen for its flexibility, language bindings, functionality, and growing community .WebDriver has the capability of driving multiple browsers or different versions of the same browsers on different platforms. Test scripts for four test cases were implemented and run only on a Windows 7 platform. All test cases were executed successfully and the outcomes were identical to the predicted outcomes.