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Test Automation and the Benefits of Selenium

February 2, 2017 By Daniel Giordano Leave a Comment

It’s Open Source…And Free.

Selenium is an Open Source automation framework built for web-browser testing by some of the brightest developers tired of scripting with expensive legacy automation tools not truly built for the web. Because of this, Selenium’s community is vibrant, growing and is seen as one of the real strength’s of the tool. It has become the most reliable web automation tool because of the ease of generating test scripts to validate functionality. Selenium also works with testing frameworks like WebDriver.IO, Nightwatch.js, and countless others. Oh, and it’s free, with no upfront costs.

One Script for True Cross Browser Testing

With only one script Selenium can test Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Opera, and Internet Explorer on almost any platform available: Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Customers are using an increasing amount of devices, as they become cheaper and more powerful. Keep up and improve your test coverage with just one script.

Works with The Languages You Use

You can use your favorite language with Selenium, so testing starts right away. With support for Java, JavaScript, C#, PHP, Ruby, Python and Perl you’ll avoid the hassle of learning another programming language just to start browser testing.

Easy to Learn and Scale

You’re not alone! With an incredibly vibrant, growing community, Selenium tutorials, testing, and development help is usually just a short search away. The documentation at SeleniumHQ is helpful, and there countless tutorials and how-to sites for you to quickly learn “Selenese”. You can even use Selenium IDE, a Firefox Record and Replay extension, to generate scripts! Selenium was built to scale with their local testing Grid, so you can be assured that as your application grows, so too will your test coverage. Here are a few of our favorite tutorial sites for Selenium:

  • SeleniumEasy
  • AutomateThePlanet
  • LearnAutomation

Integrations for Every Stage of Testing

Selenium has a solid foundation of standards that make it able to be used easily with popular software development and testing tools. Integrate easily with SC compilers like Maven and ANT, CI systems like Jenkins or TeamCity, cloud-grids like CrossBrowserTesting, and almost any test management tool.

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