Selenium RC | Selenium Webdriver

Selenium RC is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser

Introduction

As you can read in Brief History of The Selenium Project, it was the main Selenium project for a long time, before the WebDriver/Selenium merge brought up Selenium 2, the newest and more powerful tool.

Selenium 1 is still actively supported (mostly in maintenance mode) and provides some features that may not be available in Selenium 2 for a while, including support for several languages (Java, Javascript, Ruby, PHP, Python, Perl and C#) and support for almost every browser out there

How Selenium RC Works

First, we will describe how the components operate and the role each plays in running test scripts.

RC Components

The components are:

The Selenium Server which launches and kills browsers, interprets and runs the Selenese commands passed from the test program, and acts as an HTTP proxy, intercepting and verifying HTTP messages passed between the browser and the AUT.
Client libraries which provide the interface between each programming language and the Selenium RC Server

It involves the following topics