On this page, you can find Basic Selenium Interview questions and answers which may benefit to freshers to experienced professional. This is part 1 of this interview questions series.

Very Basic Interview Questions –

1  What types of Testing are supported by selenium?

Functional Testing and regression testing

2. When should we go for selenium Grid?

Selenium Grid is used for test execution and not for test case design. It is used to execute test cases on same or different platforms on multiple machines parallel.

3. What is latest version of Selenium?

Selenium 3

4. What is difference between single slash (/) and double slash(//)?

/ – denotes that it is absolute Xpath ,that is starting from root node of the webpage
//- denotes it is relative Xpath, meaning, can starts from anywhere in the page.

5. What are different types of locators in selenium webdriver?

Id, class, Xpath, CSS, Name, Tagname, linkText, partial LinkText etc.

6. What is difference between assert and verify?

Assert – Test case terminated once assert fails.
verify – Test case is not terminated even if verify fails.

7. What are different types of drivers available in selenium WebDriver?

Firefox Driver, IEDriver, Chrome Driver, Safari Driver, HtmlUnitDriver etc.

 

 

Refer Part 2 onwards for advanced Interview Questions.