How to run automated Selenium JUnit tests in Engineering Test Management

Summary

Selenium is an open source software testing framework designed for web applications.

There are different components available:
- The Selenium IDE, which you can use for recording and creating automated tests without knowledge of a specific scripting language.
- The Selenium WebDriver API, which you can use to create tests by using a scripting language of your choice. Supported languages are Java, Ruby, Python, and C#. Because JUnit is a unit-testing framework for the Java programming language, and the tests are run from Engineering Test Management uses JUnit, Java is the language that any Selenium WebDriver tests must be written in to be supported.

Selenium also offers a wider range of browser support and can be deployed on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple Macintosh platforms.

In this how-to, the server running Engineering Test Management also runs the Selenium tests. In a real test environment, you would run the Selenium tests from a different test workstation to the Engineering Test Management server.