SELENIUM: Technology Stack

Before we start this automation framework course, we should know what actually we are going to use for this so that we can have all those ready beforehand.

This is the post, where you can find the technologies used for this whole process.

Further, in this blog, I will be writing the course to create an automation framework so I will be focusing more on webdriver component of selenium and less on other components like selenium ide, RC etc. I can cover these under "Interesting facts" topic later during the course. I will also try to cover some of the other interesting topics in this which cannot be covered in course.

So, let's go through the technologies which I will be using during this course.

I will be using Selenium webdriver as automation tool for building framework, C# as a programing language, MSTest testing framework for writing tests and visual studio as development tool.

So, it is assumed that you have at least basic knowledge of these technologies. In case you know nothing about these, you don't have to bother, Just click on the respective links and get at least basic knowledge or you can also find other links if you find better content there to get a start.

In next post we will learn and see a basic view of selenium and its webdriver architecture.

Thanks for reading this post and see you in next post. Cya!

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