Part 1: What is Selenium?

The QA industry is very diverse, and with that diversity brings a multitude of different testing tools.

Selenium is one of those opensource tools that allows you to develop automated tests for Web sites while enabling integration in to the test management tool of your choice, with a few tweaks.

In short, Selenium is a tool that automates web browsers in order to be able to test web sites and web applications.

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It comes in two flavours to suit a variety of needs for different projects:

- Selenium IDE

- Selenium WebDriver

There are many different tools out there in the QA market, but few have the community support and technical reach of Selenium. Some argue that there are more established vendors out there with more "popular" tools available. This may be true, but when it comes to ROI in setting up an automated test environment with Selenium at the core, it is indeed very attractive.

This series of tutorials aims to help build a set of core skills to enable people to use Selenium effectively.

Part 2 - Differences between Selenium IDE and WebDriver