Facts of Automation Testing

 Today we will see how selenium came in to IT industry and become one of the popular automation testing tool. One of the interesting story born in 2004, when an a engineer in Thoughtworks testing a web application manually. While testing he found repetition of manual actions on the web application. The name of engineer who found selenium is Jason Huggins.       Jason Huggins developed on JavaScript program that helps to control browser actions, Initially he named this program as a JavascriptTestRunner . This program helps him to save his time and then he thought there more potential in this idea to help other web applications to automate. Jason Huggins made JavascriptTestRunner as open source which was renamed later as Selenium-core. But question may came in your mind why he given selenium name to this. there again very interesting story.   Why name is selenium?                In tha...

  There are two key things in defects of the software testing. They are: 1)     Severity 2)     Priority What is the difference between Severity and Priority? 1)  Severity : It is the extent to which the defect  can affect the software. In other words it defines the impact that a given defect has on the system. For example: If an application or web page crashes when a remote link is clicked, in this case clicking the remote link by an user is rare but the impact of  application crashing is severe. So the severity is high but priority is low. Severity can be of following types: Critical: The defect that results in the termination of the complete system or one or more component of the system and causes extensive corruption of the data. The failed function is unusable and there is no acceptable alternative method to achieve the required results then the severity will be stated as critical. Maj...