Interview questions with Answers

Question 1: What is Selenium?

Question 2: How is Selenium different from commercial browser automation tools?

Question3: What are the set of tools/Components available with Selenium?

Question 4: Which Selenium Tool should I use?

Question 5: What is Selenium IDE?

Question 6: Which language is used in Selenium IDE?

Question 7: What is Selenium 1.0?

Question 8: What is Selenium 2.0?

Question 9: What are the element locators available with Selenium which could be used to locate elements on web page?

Question 10: What is Selenium Grid?

Question 11: What are two modes of views in Selenium IDE?

Question 12: Can I control the speed and Pause test execution in Selenium IDE?

Question 13: Where do I see the results of Test Execution in Selenium IDE?

Question 14: Where do I see the description of commands used in Selenium IDE?

Question 15: Can I build test suite using Selenium IDE?

Question 16: What verification points are available with Selenium?

Question 17: I see two types of check with Selenium – verification and assertion, what’s the difference between these two?

Question 18: I don’t see check points added to my tests while using Selenium IDE, how do I get them added to my tests?

Question 19: How do I edit tests in Selenium IDE?

Question 20: What is syntax of command used in Selenium?

Question 21: There are tons of Selenium Command, am I going to use all of them?

Question 22: How do I use html id and name while using Selenium IDE?

Question 23: What is XPath? When would I have to use XPath in Selenium IDE?

Question 24: What is CSS location strategy in Selenium?

Question 25: There is id, name, XPath, CSS locator, which one should I use?

Question 26:  I want to generate random numbers, dates as my test data, how do I do this in Selenium IDE?

Question 27: Can I store result of an evaluation and use it later in my test?

Question 28:  Have stored result of an evaluation; can I print it in IDE to check its value?

Question 29: Can I handle java script alert using Selenium?

Question 30: Selenium has recorded my test using XPath, how do I change them to css locator?

Question 31: I have written my own element locator, how do I test it?

Question 32: I have written one JS extension; can I plug it in Selenium and use it?

Question 33: How do I convert my Selenium IDE tests from Selenese to another language?

Question 34: I have converted my Selenium IDE tests to java but I am not able to execute them, execution options as well as Table tab of Selenium IDE is disabled?

Question 35: I want to use only Selenese as my test script language but still want to execute tests in other browsers, how do I do that?

Question 36: I have added one command in middle of list of commands, how do I test only this new command?

Question 37: Can I make Selenium IDE tests begin test execution from a certain command and not from the very first command?

Question 38: Are there other tools available outside Selenium IDE to help me tests my element locators?

Question 39: What is upcoming advancement in Selenium IDE?

Question 40: How can I use looping option (flow control) in Selenium IDE?

Question 41: Can I use screen coordinate while using click command? I want to click at specific part of my element?

Question 42: How do I verify presence of drop down options using Selenium?

Question 43: Can I get data from a specific html table cell using Selenium IDE?

Question 44: I want to make Selenium IDE record and display css locator followed by other locators, is it possible to give high priority to css locator in Selenium IDE?

Question 45: My application has dynamic alerts which don’t always appear, how do I handle them?

Question 46: Can I right click on a locator?

Question 47: How do I capture screen shot of page using Selenium IDE?

Question 48: I want to Pause my test execution after certain command?

Question 49: I used open command to launch my page, but I encountered time out error?

Question 50: What’s the difference between type and typeKeys commands?

Question 51: What is Selenium RC (also known as Selenium 1.0)?

Question 52: What are the main components of Selenium RC?

Question 53: Why do I need Selenium Server?

Question 54: What is Selenium core? I have never used it!!!?

Question 55: Where is executable for Selenium RC, how do I install it?

Question 56: I have downloaded Selenium Server and Client libraries, how do I start Selenium Server?

Question 57: On my machine port 4444 is not free? How do Use another port?

Question 58: I am new to programming; can Selenium generate sample code from my Selenese scripts?

Question 59: Can I start Selenium server from my program instead of command line?

Question 60: And how do I start the browser?

Question 61: I am not using java to program my tests, do I still have to install java on my system?

Question 62: What are the browsers offering from Selenium?

Question 63: During execution of tests I see two browser windows; one my test application another window shows commands being executed. Can I limit it to just one window?

Question 64: My tests usually time out?. Can I specify bigger time out?

Question 65: My system is behind corporate network, how do I specify my corporate proxy?

Question 66: I am switching domains in my test scripts. I move from “yahoo.com” to “google.com” and my tests encounter permission denied error?

Question 67: Can I execute my Selenese tests in another browser using Selenium server? I want to use only Selenese script my tests but still want to execute my test in non-Firefox browsers?

Question 68: Can I log more options during test execution?

Question 69: Can I use Selenium RC on my UNIX/Mac also?

Question 70: I want to test my scripts on new experimental browser, how do I do that?

Question 71: I executed my tests cases but where is the test report?

Question 72: How do I use recovery scenarios with Selenium? I used to use them with QTP?

Question 73: How do I iterate through options in my test script?

Question 74: Can I execute java script from my tests? I want to count number of images on my page?

Question 75: Is there a way for me to know all available options when I start Selenium Server?

Question 76: I have created my own Firefox profile; can I execute my test scripts on it?

Question 77: How do I capture server side log from Selenium server?

Question 78: What are Heightened Privileges Browsers?

Question 79: My application has lots of pop up window, how do I work with them?

Question 80: While trying to execute my tests with Firefox I encountered following error – “Firefox Refused Shutdown While Preparing a Profile”. How do I solve it?

Question 81: My application uses Ajax heavily how do I use Selenium RC to work with Ajax operations?

Question 82: How do I upload a file using Selenium? I need to upload a word file during test execution?

Question 83: Why do I get “permission denied” error during execution of Selenium tests?

Question 84: I am not able to use “style” attribute to locate element with IE browser?

Question 85: Are there any technical limitations while using Selenium RC?

Question 86: But my tests need me to exercise objects outside browser, how do I achieve it?

Question 87: Does Selenium have any offering for mobile browsers?

Question 88: How does Selenium RC stand with other commercial tools?

Question 89: Can I just use Selenium RC to drive tests on two different browsers on one operating system without using Selenium Grid?

Question 90: How do I cut down text execution time for my selenium tests? I want to execute my tests on a combination of different machines and browsers?

Question 91: How does Selenium grid works?

Question 92: Can you show me one diagram which describes functionality of Selenium grid?

Question 93: Which jar files are needed to work with Selenium GRID?

Question 94: How do I start Selenium Grid hub from my machine?

Question 95: How do I start Selenium Grid Slave Server from my system?

Question 96: How do I start Selenium grid slave on a different port than 5555?

Question 97: How do I start grid RC slaves on a different system than my local host so than hub could control and contact a specific configuration?

Question 98: How do I specify an environment while starting grid slave machine?

Question 99: How do I use machine specific configuration in my Selenium tests?

Question 100: But how does my tests know that ‘Safari on Mac’ mean a safari browser? How does mapping between names like ‘Safari on Mac’ and original browser options available in Selenium work?

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