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What is selenium? Why do we use selenium for automation ?

Selenium is open source frame work which is used to automating the web browser. It provides tools and libraries that will allow the developer to interact with web applications and perform the Ittesting on web application.

we use selenium for automation purpose because it offers many benefits.
1)Cross browser compatibility
2)Real browser interactions
3)Extensibility
4)Robust testing capabilities
5)Integration with other tools

1)selenium supports multiple web browsers such as chrome, fire-fox, safari, edge etc. This allows us to write automation scripts.
2)It enables us to simulate real user interactions with web elements like clicking buttons, filling forms, and navigating through pages. This help in testing the functionality and behavior of web applications.
3)It provides a wide range of programming language that allows to write the programing in their preferred language and also supports various testing frameworks
4)It allows us to perform various testing like functional testing, regression testing, integration testing.
5)selenium can be easily integrated with other testing frameworks, tools and continuous integration delivery.

Selenium is a powerful tool for automating web browsers and is widely used in the industry for web application testing and automation.

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