Introduction to Selenium — The Best Automation Tool

Shubham Kumar
The SK’s Guide to Automation Testing
2 min readNov 29, 2022

In this article, we will start with an Introduction to Selenium and see the Features and Drawbacks of Selenium. Further, we will look at the Selenium tools. We will learn how to automate a web application using selenium in further articles.

What is Selenium

Selenium is an open-source, free, and widely used Web UI automation testing framework. Selenium supports multiple languages like Java, Python, Ruby, C#, PHP, etc. It supports various operating systems like Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Solaris, etc. And it also supports testing on multiple browsers like Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge, Opera, Safari, etc.

Selenium Features

  • Selenium is an open-source and portable Web UI automation testing framework.
  • Selenium IDE provides a playback and record feature for automation tests that don’t need any type of programming language.
  • Selenium supports different types of systems, programming languages, and web browsers. They are listed below –
  • Systems — Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Solaris, etc.
  • Programming Languages — Java, Python, Ruby, C#, PHP, etc.
  • Browsers — Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge, Opera, Safari, etc.

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