Why Java for Selenium? How to Implement Java for Testing

Selenium is the most prominent tool in the field of automation testing, whereas Java, on the other hand, is the most heavily used programming language in today’s market. Both of these technologies together make a perfect combination for automation Testing. Through the medium of this article, I will give you a complete insight into why you should use Java for Selenium.

Below are the topics I will be covering in this article:

• Introduction to Selenium
• Advantages of Selenium
• Why use Java for Selenium
• What to learn in Java for Selenium?
• Demo to implement Java for Selenium

Introduction to Selenium

Selenium is the most popular open-source tool that is used widely for automating the tests which are carried out on web browsers. In other words, you can test web applications only with Selenium. You can neither test any desktop (software) application nor any mobile application using Selenium. To overcome this, much other software testing and mobile applications testing tools have been introduced in the market such as IBM’s RFT, HP’s QPT, Appium and many more. But still, Selenium dominates the world of Automation Testing. But the question that arises is, Why?

For starters, as I have already mentioned, Selenium is open-source, thus there is no licensing cost involved. This doesn’t seem much but actually it is a major advantage over other testing tools. Let’s now find out about the rest of the advantage in the next section of this Java for Selenium article.

Advantages of using Selenium

Few advantages are:

• Tests can be carried in any OS such as Windows, Mac or Linux
• Tests can be carried out using a wide range of browsers such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari or Opera
• It can be integrated with various tools such as TestNG & JUnit for test cases management and report generation
• For continuous testing, it can be integrated with Maven, Jenkins & Docker to achieve Continuous Testing
• Wide range of programming languages are used to write the test cases such as Java, Python, C#, PHP, Ruby, Perl & .Net. But among all these languages Java is most popularly used. 

But why Java? In the next section of this Java for Selenium article, I will give you the reasons for Java being the most popular language for automation.