Introduction to Selenium
What is Selenium? Selenium is a free (open source) automated testing suite for web applications across different browsers and platforms. It is quite similar to HP Quick Test Pro (QTP now UFT) only that Selenium focuses on automating web-based applications. Testing done using Selenium tool is usually referred as Selenium Testing. Selenium is not just a single tool but a suite of software's, each catering to different testing needs of an organization. It has four components. Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Selenium Remote Control (RC) WebDriver Selenium Grid At the moment, Selenium RC and WebDriver are merged into a single framework to form Selenium 2 . Selenium 1, by the way, refers to Selenium RC. Who developed Selenium? Since Selenium is a collection of different tools, it had different developers as well. Below are the key persons who made notable contributions to the Selenium Project Primarily, Selenium was c...