Author : Rupandeep Virk and Neha Malhotra

Number of softwares have been created as web based applications (applications that are executed in a web browser) now a days. Quality is the main aspect that needs to be assured before the softwares are delivered to the customers. Many testing tools are available in market for testing of these softwares. Selenium is one such tool available. Selenium RC tool, one of the components of Selenium available is used to create automated test cases for web based applications. This paper gives an introduction of selenium and its components. Selenium RC one of the component of Selenium, basically used for web application automation testing has some assert functions that help query the database for real time data. In this paper I am going to propose a novel approach in selenium RC tool. New assert functions are to be added into the tool to extend SeleniumDB management systems, such as Oracle or SQL Server. New assert functions are to be added to help provide different tests in a database including the assert functions that, for an instance can be used to perform a join among different tables in a database.

Keywords: Testing tools, Selenium RC, Asserts.

Article published in International Journal of Current  Engineering  and Technology, Vol.4,No.3 (June- 2014)