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Selenium automation tool

Selenium is an automation tool that automates web browsers & can be used to automate regular mundane tasks or for testing. In the context of this blog, we will stick to it's use for automated testing.
So, here is another definition of Selenium.

Selenium is a software testing framework for web applications that allows you to write UI tests cases against any website. It runs in many browsers & operating systems & can be controlled by many programming languages & testing frameworks.

Selenium has 2 modules that you can select based on your requirement.


  1. Selenium web driver
  2. Selenium IDE

Use Selenium web driver if you want to create robust, browser based regression automation suites & test & you want to scale & distribute scripts across many environments
Use Selenium IDE if you want to create quick bug reproduction scripts. This is a simple add-on that will do simple record-playback of interactions with browser.


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