Chapter 9. Getting Started with the Selenium Grid

In this chapter, we will have a look at what Selenium Grid is and how we can set it up on different environments. All tests are stored in a common location and we need not worry about any environment changes since all are pointing to the same located tests.

In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics:

  • Setting up the Selenium Grid hub
  • Setting up the Selenium Grid Remote Control (RC)
  • Creating tests for the grid
  • Running tests in parallel

So, let's get on with it.

Note

Please make sure that you download the latest Selenium server from http://seleniumhq.org/download.

Understanding Selenium Grid

Selenium Grid is a version of Selenium that allows teams to set up a number of Selenium instances and ...

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