Selenium Overview

What is Selenium? Selenium is an automation tool widely used to perform browser automation. For example, consider we are working for Amazon and our task is to make sure the user is able to place an order successfully. Say this has to be done every day to make sure there is no breakage in the application due to everyday code deployment. Its tedious and time taking to verify this function manually every day. So here comes our Selenium tool using which we can place an order on Amazon and verify the order goes through, without any manual intervention. Once the test execution is done, we get to see the report if all the tests we coded are passed. This way one can avoid manual testing and any redundant tasks. Selenium Titbits Development: Selenium was developed in the year 2004 by a team in ThoughtWorks. Original Name: It was initially called JavascriptTestRunner and was used to automate ThoughtWorks internal application ‘Time and Expenses’. How Selenium got its name?: In 2004, the dominant