QTP is now called as HP UFT from the company Hewlett Packard. Selenium was made my Thought-works and maintained by www.seleniuhq.org now.

1) These are two different functional software testing tools and may not be defined together.2) QTP(HP UFT) is a commercial tool which has a trial period of 30 days as it is a commercial tool. Selenium is free tool as it falls under open source licenses.

List of instructions for SELENIUM COURSE before a trainee starts the Selenium Training programs:

1) Should have a computer with Windows 7 Operating system or later. The latest windows OS will be an added advantage.Selenium does support Mac and Linux based systems too2) Should have minimum 4GB Ram with 500GB HDD3) Should have a decent broadband connection 4) Should preferable have a USB headphone with listening and talking facility5) Should have the following browsers installed along with the operating systems these browsers are compatible with.

Google Chrome Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 on appropriate combinations of Vista, Windows 7,

Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. As of April 15 2014, IE 6 is no longer supported. The driver supports running 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the browser where applicable

Firefox: latest ESR, previous ESR, current release, one previous release Safari

List of software's required for this training and the installations steps in detail The installation steps for Selenium IDE, Eclipse IDE, Configuring Selenium Web driver, Configuring TestNG Framework, Configuring ANT, Configuring Maven, Configuring, Selenium Grid, are shown in the training sessions and part of curriculum for training. However the said softwares can be found at the following links:

1) Selenium IDE - http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/

2. Eclipse IDE has flavors for Windows, Mac and Linux

Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers(Windows) - https://eclipse.org/downloads/

For a 32 bit OS download Eclipse for 32 bits and for 64 bit OS the respective Eclipse needs to be installed.

How to find that the Windows OS is 32 bit or 64 bit?

To find out if your computer is running 32-bit or 64-bit Windows, do the following:Open System by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clicking System.Under System, you can view the system type.

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Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers (Mac) - https://eclipse.org/downloads/?osType=macosx

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Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers (Linux) - https://eclipse.org/downloads/?osType=linux

For a 32 bit OS download Eclipse for 32 bits and for 64 bit OS the respective Eclipse needs to be installed.

How to find that the Linux OS is 32 bit or 64 bit?

To find out if your computer is running 32-bit or 64-bit Windows, do the following:

Involves the “uname” command, which prints system information to the screen. If you want more information than just whether your system is 32-bit or 64-bit, type the following command and press Enter.

uname –a

The following information is printed to the screen in the following order: kernel name, network node hostname, kernel release, kernel version, machine hardware name, processor type, hardware platform, operating system.

3. Selenium Web-Driver - http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/The screenshot is below and the highlighted portion shows the place from where this needs to be downloaded:

4) TestNG Framework - TestNg needs to be installed with Eclipse IDE. It can be installed as a plug-in of Eclipse. The download URL is http://testng.org/doc/download.html

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5) ANT - It is build and compilation tool which can be configured with the system. It can be downloaded from the following link: https://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi

The screenshot is below and the highlighted portion shows the place from where this needs to be downloaded: ZIP extension is for Windows and TAR extensions for MAC and LINUX

6) MAVEN - It is a build and compilation tool which can be configured with the system. It can be downloaded from the following link - https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

The screenshot is below and the highlighted portion shows the place from where this needs to be downloaded: ZIP extension is for Windows and TAR extensions for MAC and LINUX

7) Selenium Grid - It is a set of command and scripting through which GRID works