is it feasible to test mainframe, which is a desktop based application with selenium? If yes, then how?
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Selenium allows to test any UI that can provide WebDriver implementation to interact with it.
If UI framework that runs your app provides a webdriver that can:
- associate the commands WebDriver implementations should implement with the particular actions on UI
- associate the way how the locators are built with the particular UI objects
then you can utilize that driver for your UI automation.
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Indeed, would be nice to have a webdriver implementation to support it. But it would likely be limited in API coverage, such as open up terminal/command, SendKeys, and switch to window commands for the most part. – David Jun 2 at 19:45
Selenium is browser automation tool.
It is commonly used to website test automation, but it is not limited to it.
Mainframe/desktop do not have HTML locators, which webdriver uses to locate webelements to be interacted with, AFAIK.
answered Mar 26 '18 at 17:54
To be practical... you can perform automation to some extent. but not recommended. You might consider winium which implements the JSON wire protocol to automate windows based application(with limited achievability). I would suggest consider UFT with terminal emulator addin.
answered Mar 28 '18 at 6:13
