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Test Automation gets invariably considered in the testing process for various reasons, namely, eliminating manual errors, speeding up the process, making the tests repeatable, and building an overall cost-effective approach. In a challenging business scenario, it is imperative to build web applications that are robust, resilient, with excellent GUI, and required functionalities that can make the application user friendly and engaging.

For instance, consider any financial application that has to connect with multiple vendor sites, make payments, enable shopping, and much more. What if this interface is not seamless and creates security issues while the transaction happens? The entire credibility of the application will go for a toss and the user might not land up on the site again. This calls for rigorous and repeated testing, which test automation enables.

Software Testing ensures coverage of all these aspects and gets the application in the desired mode for the users. Test Automation paces up the process with the required efficiency to get the application faster to the market. Considering time is a critical aspect, automation ensures that the application is not half-baked. Both proprietary as well as open source tools are leveraged for automation, keeping the testing/automation objective into focus.

Proprietary testing tools such as HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), TestComplete, Ranorex, are names of some established test automation tools. At the same time, Open Source Innovation and Open Source Innovation platforms have been creating buzz lately. Likewise, Open Source Test Automation tools such as Selenium, Watir, Sahi, Serenity, and Robot Framework have gained their own market share amongst enterprises and experts in the industry.

Now, the question pops up, why has Selenium emerged as the most sought-after test automation tool by world-acclaimed enterprises such as Microsoft and Facebook?

Selenium, an open source test automation framework for testing Web applications comes with a suite of tools that support the development of automated testing for web applications.

• Selenium IDE: It’s a feature specifically for Mozilla Firefox that is normally used for recording, debugging, and editing selenium scripts.
• Selenium RC: Also known as Selenium Remote Control, it is used to execute tests on various systems and browsers.
• Selenium Grid: It helps in executing and running diverse Selenium RC test cases concurrently, and enables segregation of tests across browsers/devices for simultaneous execution.
• Selenium Webdriver: The latest version of Selenium that comprises multiple Selenium APIs.

The reason to put together these features is to basically establish the benefits of Selenium. Reusable, maintainable, and stable are some key characteristics that Selenium brings to the Test Automation world. Enterprises have been considering Selenium adoption over and above established tools for its intrinsic benefits that go beyond mere cost-effectiveness.

We weigh some key reasons that testify that Selenium is a great tool endorsed by industry connoisseurs for Web application testing.

• Compatibility across Operating Systems

This is one of the greatest features of Selenium and the key reason why the tool has been considered for testing web applications. The need to gauge the efficiency and compatibility of the applications across various Operating Systems is intensifying as the commercial scenario gets more and more tricky. 

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