what is selenium used for

Question

When you open the official page of Selenium, the first thing you read is "Selenium automates browser" in the "What is Selenium?" section. The section "Which part of Selenium is appropriate for me?" below offers the choice between Selenium WebDriver and Selenium IDE.

Answer 1

Selenium is the most popularly used freeware and open source automation tool. The benefits of Selenium for Test Automation are immense. Importantly, it enables record and playback for testing web applications and can run multiple scripts across various browsers.

Some of the uses of Selenium are:

Faster report generation

Enable frequent regression testing

The infinite number of iterations can be done without deadlock

Can easily find errors that are missed in manual testing

Supports Agile methodology

Documentation becomes easier

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