WHICH TOOLS/APPLICATIONS ARE NEEDED BEFORE TO START SELENIUM WEBDRIVER SCRIPTING?

Following tools are needed before to start the selenium Webdriver scripting:

• Selenium IDE: It is used to record the selenium script from firebox.

• Firebug: It is used to fetch the locator of web element like id, name etc.

• Firepath: It is used to generate xpath of the web element.

• Eclipse: It is used to code the selenium script. This editor only needs when we are using languages like Java, PHP, etc for selenium  scripting which is supported by eclipse. If we are using other language like C# then we different editor which is supportable to language.

• JDK (Java Development Kit): It is used to code & run selenium scripts in Java programming language. If we are using any other language then we need other development environment which is supportable by the language.

• JRE (Java Runtime Environment): It is used to run our selenium scripts written in Java programming language. If we are using any other language then we need other runtime environment which is supportable by the language.

• Selenium Standalone Server: It is used to run the selenium code and functions written in any language.

• Selenium Java Client Driver: It is used to run the selenium scripts written in Java language. If we are using any other language then we need other selenium client driver which is supportable by the language.