Introduction to Selenium

The testing of web-based applications or systems is compulsory according to the system development life cycle (SDLC), and this step is done prior to the launch of applications on the web. Selenium, an open source project, uses a web browser as an interface for automation and can be used for web-related or web-based activities.

Dynamic and secure web applications using JavaScript (JS), cookies/sessions, other JS scripts, and many more web components can be handled, processed, automated, and crawled with the use of Selenium. “Selenium is an umbrella project for a range of tools and libraries that enable and support the automation of web browsers.” (https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/overview/). Though primarily used for browser-based automation, different cases that can be managed or used with a browser can be tackled using Selenium. This makes Selenium the most popular and appreciated automation-related browser-based tool.

Selenium is...