🌉Selenium Grid

What is the Selenium Grid?

Selenium Grid 😎 allows running Selenium tests in parallel across multiple machines.

Why use Selenium Grid?

Some reasons to use Selenium Grid are:

✅ Speed up test execution time by running tests in parallel 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

✅ Access different OSes, browsers, and browser versions not available locally 🖥️🌐

✅ Scale tests to handle large test suites 📈

✅ Distribute load to avoid overloading a single machine ⚖️

How does Selenium Grid work?

Selenium Grid has two main components:

  • Hub 🕸 - Manages and distributes tests to Nodes

  • Nodes 📱 - Executes the tests assigned by the Hub

Tests are sent to the Hub, which then distributes them to available Nodes for execution.📲

Interviewer: Can you give steps to use Selenium Grid?

Me: The basic steps are:

1.💡 Install the Selenium Server standalone jar

  1. ⚙️ Start the Hub

  2. 🚀 Start Nodes and register them with the Hub

  3. 👓 Configure the Nodes (browser, version, OS, etc.)

  4. 😎 Send tests to the Hub which distributes to Nodes for execution

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