Why Selenium?

Selenium is a free and open-source framework for testing web applications. The Selenium framework uses “Selenese” as the default test domain language for writing test scripts, and it also helps testers write test scripts.

Why selenium is popular?

01) Selenium is an open-source automation framework

The fact that Selenium is open source is only one of the numerous benefits it offers. Selenium is a publicly available automation framework that is free with no upfront expenses because it is an open-source application. As a result, we can save money and use it for other good causes.

02) Selenium supports working for multiple browsers

Most desktop and mobile browsers now include Selenium support for automated testing. Consumer browser providers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Opera create and distribute their own drivers.

03) Support Across various operating systems.

Different operating systems are used by different people, thus your automation tool must handle all of them. Selenium is a very portable program that works on a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS, UNIX, and others.

04) Selenium is easy to implement

The Selenium automation framework is a user-friendly tool. Selenium has a user-friendly interface that makes it simple to build and execute test scripts. You can also keep a watch on the tests as they run. You can review detailed Selenium test reports and take action based on them.

05)Easy to Learn

Selenium scripts aren’t the same as building a hundred-page algorithm. Writing Selenium scripts is as simple as writing a few lines of code to automate website functionality.

06)Supports multiple programming languages

Selenium supports a variety of programming languages like Java, Python, C#, C++, Perl, Ruby, etc.