What is Selenium?

Selenium is an open-source tool and portable framework that is used for automating the tests administered on web browsers. It is only used for testing web applications such as Shopping Carts, Email Programs like Gmail, Yahoo.


Selenium was introduced by Jason Huggins in 2004. Jason Huggins an Engineer at Thoughtworks. He was doing his work on some web application and he suddenly required testing.
He realized that mundane Manual Testing of their application was turning to be more and more ineffective.

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