Introduction
Software development is moving quickly, and high-quality, bug-free web applications are essential for modern business. There is a need for speed in product development. While there is no doubt that manual testing has its benefits, testing can be slow, hard to manage, and subject to error. This is especially true when testing is done across the multiple browsers and operating systems and the varied devices used by the employees and clients of a business.
Automated testing provides solutions to the issues introduced by manual testing. Automated testing allows engineering teams to conduct tests easily and quickly, and to perform tests as many times as needed, without the stresses of manual testing. Selenium is a leader in the automation testing sphere. As an open source framework, Selenium has set the standard for web browser automation testing for the software engineering community for more than 20 years.
What Is Selenium?
Selenium is the name of a free and open-source software testing automation framework. It was developed in 2004 by Jason Huggins at ThoughtWorks. It was originally designed to automate time-consuming internal web-based testing for staff at ThoughtWorks, but has quickly expanded to become a full testing framework for others. It has become industry standard as the framework of choice for small engineering companies and for Fortune 500 companies alike.
