Selenium-Grid allows you run Selenium tests on different machines, running various operating systems, against different browsers in parallel. It allows for running your tests in a distributed test execution environment.
Selenium-Grid allows you run Selenium tests on different machines, running various operating systems, against different browsers in parallel. It allows for running your tests in a distributed test execution environment.
Selenium-Grid 2.0 is the latest release. It is quite different from version 1 of Selenium-Grid. In 2.0 Selenium-Grid was merged with the Selenium-RC server. Now, you only need to download a single .jar file to get the remote Selenium-RC-Server and Selenium-Grid all in one package.
Grid allows you to :
- scale by distributing tests on several machines (parallel execution )
- manage multiple environments from a central point, making it easy to run the tests against a vast combination of browsers / OS.
- minimize the maintenance time for the grid by allowing you to implement custom hooks to leverage virtual infrastructure for instance.
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