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9 Aug

What is Selenium?

Posted by Bibek Khatiwara in Selenium. Tagged: browser compatibility testing using selenium, selenium testing tool, selenium webdriver, what is selenium, what is selenium 2, what is webdriver. 1 comment

Introduction:-

Selenium is a software testing framework or software testing tool for web based applications.
It provides the flexibility to write the test in different programming languages such as Java,C#,Perl,Python,ruby etc.
It can run the same test script in different web browsers such as IE,FF,Chrome etc on windows,Linux and Macintosh platforms.

Developed by Jason Huggins at Thoughtworks.It is an open source software (License:-Apache License 2.0 ).
Selenium is written Java.It also provides an IDE (firefox plugin) that can record & play the test and the same test can be exported in above mentioned programming languages.

Selenium 2 aka Web driver is widely used these days.To sum up “Selenium automates browsers”.