Few Questions for Selenium Beginners

Q.1> What is Selenium?
Ans.  Selenium is an open source framework which is used to automate web-application.

Q.2 > What are the flavors of Selenium?
Ans.  There are four flavors of selenium-
         a. Selenium IDE (Integrated development environment).
         b. Selenium RC (Remote control).
         c. Selenium Web driver.
         d. Selenium Grid.

Q.3> What is Selenium web driver?
Ans. Selenium web driver is an free and open source automation tool which is used to automate web application.
      - It is developed under the guidance of Jason Huggins.

Q.4> What are the advantages of Selenium web driver?
Ans.  The advantages are as follows-
        a. It is a free and open source.
        b. It supports multiple languages like java, python, c#, js, ruby, php, Perl.
        c. It supports multiple browsers like Firefox, IE, chrome, edge, safari, etc.
        d. It supports Headless browser testing like Phantom JS, Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge, Safari.
        e. It supports multiple platform like windows, Macintosh, Solaris, Linux, etc.

Q.5> What are the disadvantages of Selenium web driver?
Ans- The disadvantages are as follows-
        a. Selenium web driver cannot automate captcha.
        b. Selenium web driver cannot automate gaming application.
        c. It partially automate audio and video test-cases.
        d. It cannot automate print related test-cases.

Q.6> What is selenium grid?
Ans. Selenium grid is a concept which is used to execute the automation scripts from one system to the remote system.