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In this video we will cover Selenium in its current incarnation, and how it has iterated over the years.
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With a brief overview of all the moving
parts of the Selenium project,
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let's take a moment to discuss
the current state of Selenium.
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As you know by now in your learnings,
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the Internet doesn't do a very
good job of cleaning up its mess.
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There are a lot of outdated blog posts
that might lead you down a wrong, and
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sometimes quite confusing path.
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So let's take a look at the current state
of Selenium before we go too much further.
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[SOUND] Selenium RC has been deprecated.
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This is also sometimes
referred to as Selenium 1.
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[SOUND] It is still supported by
Selenium 2, but you should definitely
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be using Selenium 2 or higher,
which is also known as Selenium WebDriver.
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Selenium 3 is the current release, and
it has removed the Selenium core ability.
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The Selenium IDE Firefox plugin
doesn't seem to be updated to work
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with the Selenium 3.
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As far as server-side solutions go,
Selenium Server and Selenium Grid
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have now merged into a single product
called Selenium 2.0 Standalone Server.
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Now remember, this gives you
the ability to control remote
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instances on many different platforms.
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These tools are out of
the scope of this course, but
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check the teacher's notes for more info.
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So for this course,
we will be using Selenium 3 WebDriver.
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WebDriver is really great, and
all major browsers like Google Chrome,
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Safari, Edge, and Firefox have all
produced their own implementations.
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It's so great, in fact, that there is a
new web standard that has been created and
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it's getting pretty
close to major adoption.
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Selenium has come a long way.
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Check the teacher's notes for more.
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What do you say we take a quick break and
make sure we've got a handle on what
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Selenium is, and then get up and running
so that you can give it a test drive.
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[LAUGH] Test drive of WebDriver for tests.
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