SELENIUM RC

Advantages of Selenium RC

• Loops and conditions are used for better Performance and Flexibility.
• In Selenium RC we can read and write data from / to .xls , .txt etc.
• Selenium RC can readily support new browsers.
• Execution faster in Selenium RC compare to Selenium IDE.
• Selenium RC can be used for any JavaScript enabled browser.
• Selenium RC support for many operating systems and programming languages.
• It can handle dynamic objects and Ajax based UI elements.
• Selenium RC can support Data driven testing.

Disadvantages of Selenium RC

• Selenium RC cannot handle on-load alerts.
• Handling multiple window in Selenium RC is somewhat difficult.
• There are very limited features in RC when working with AJAX based UI elements.
• Inconsistent results and uses JavaScript.
• It needs Selenium RC server to be running.