Back in August of 2018 the whole testing automation community had been struck by the big news: Simon Stewart, the founding member of Selenium, had officially confirmed the release date and some of the major updates for Selenium 4 at the Selenium Conference in Bangalore.
The 4.0 version of the world’s beloved framework for web testing automation was meant to be released by Christmas 2018.A little delayed, Selenium 4.0 Alpha version is released which can be downloaded from Selenium official website for javascript.
Of course, Selenium has become the industry standard for implementing custom automated tests and is considered to be the first go-to solution for every web application that has grown out of an approach where manual testing could have solved the majority of the problems.But what is often left out of the picture is that businesses that heavily rely on Selenium are not only the ones who have automation QA engineers on their team but also the ones who have integrated codeless automation testing tools based on Selenium.Selenium-based codeless testing has become a real lifesaver for every business that realizes the importance of automation but doesn’t have in-house QA experts who would be able to implement it.
Such tools not only make the deployment possible for anyone with the basic understanding of web browsers but also make it possible to run regression tests, do synthetic monitoring and load testing without any knowledge of the Selenium framework at all.A perfect example of such codeless automation software is CloudQA.
Although JAVA bindings will be backward compatible, the focus will remain more on the W3C Protocol.
In Selenium Grid there is only one hub that allocates the test execution to a particular node based on capability matches.Node, in simple words, is a test machine where test cases actually run.For more details on Selenium Grid, we suggest reading the complete official tutorial on Selenium Grid.Until now, the setup process of the Selenium Grid has often caused testers difficulties with the connecting node to the hub.In Selenium 4, the grid experience has become smooth and easy since there will no longer be any need to set up and start hubs and nodes separately.