Flexibility and Extensibility | Selenium Tutorial pdf

Flexibility and Extensibility

You’ll find that Selenium is highly flexible. There are multiple ways in which one can add functionality to Selenium’s framework to customize test automation for one’s specific testing needs. This is, perhaps, Selenium’s strongest characteristic when compared with proprietary test automation tools and other open source solutions. Selenium-RC support for multiple programming and scripting languages allows the test writer to build any logic they need into their automated testing and to use a preferred programming or scripting language of one’s choice.
Selenium-IDE allows for the addition of user-defined “user-extensions” for creating additional commands customized to the user’s needs. Also, it is possible to re-configure how the Selenium-IDE generates its Selenium-RC code. This allows users to customize the generated code to fit in with their own test frameworks. Finally, Selenium is an Open Source project where code can be modified and enhancements can be submitted for contribution.