So you would like to execute tests using Selenium against a Website.  Below are 3 ways that you can execute Selenium for testing.

Selenium via Firefox.

1. You must have Firefox installed.
2. You will need the Selenium IDE add-on
   • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/selenium-ide/
3. After installing the add-on, you should restart FireFox and verify the Selenium tool installed properly.
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4. Now you can open the IDE from Firefox.  From the IDE you can record a test case or load an existing test case\test suite to execute.  (If creating a new test case, save as testcase.html)
   • Below is a simple test case for demonstration purposes.  (control\shift\c to inspect element id’s on the given webpage)
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Selenium via CMD.

1. Before we run the test case from the command line, we must create a test suite html file that calls the test case html file. (Great link below)
   • https://newcircle.com/bookshelf/selenium_tutorial/test_cases_and_test_suites
2. Now you will need to download the Selenium server jar (e.g. 2.45)
   • https://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html
3. If you are downloading the 3.0 Selenium jar, you will also need to download the latest geckodriver to support Firefox with Selenium 3. (exe must be in your path)
   • https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
4. With the files in place on your computer, you can execute the following command to launch the test case.
   • java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar
   • -“htmlsuite” “*firefox”
   • “http://www.google.com “GoogleTestSuite.html”
   •  GoogleTestSuiteResults.html

Selenium via Jenkins.

1. If you know Jenkins, you know that you can launch commands above using the Windows batch command.
2. You can also use the following plugin to configure\launch your test suite via Jenkins
   • https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Seleniumhq+Plugin
3. Finally, the above link contains information on an Ant task that can also be used in your build scripts to launch tests.  (Haven’t tried it, but it looks cool)