Selenium (Automation)

What is Selenium?

Selenium is an open-source framework for automating web applications for testing purposes. It is primarily used in software quality assurance to simulate and test user interactions with web browsers. Selenium supports multiple programming languages, including Java, Python, C#, JavaScript, and Ruby.

The framework consists of several components:

• Selenium WebDriver: The core component that allows direct control of modern web browsers.

• Selenium IDE: A browser-based integrated development environment for recording and playing back test scenarios.

• Selenium Grid: Enables distributed testing across multiple machines and browser configurations simultaneously.

Typical use cases:

• End-to-end testing of web applications

• Cross-browser testing

• Regression testing