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what is selenium ?why do we use selenium for automation.

selenium is atool used to automate web browsers.it helps developers and testers write scripts that can interact with different web browerslike chrome or firefox.we use selenium for automation because.it lets us test our web applications automatically.it's good because it works with many browsers and operating systems,so we can make sure our website works everywhere.also selenium supports different programming languagr=es like java or python,which makes it easier for us to write tests in the language we known best.it"s free ans has a big community,so there are lots of resources and support available when we have questions or
problems.overall,selenium is great for automating tests and making sure our website work correctly across different browsers and platforms.here are some reasons why selenium is widely used for automation.
1.Cross-Browser Testing:selenium supports multiple browsers,allowing teters to write scripts and execute them across different browsers.
2.Platform Independence:selenium supports multiple operating systems making it versatile for testing web applications.
3.Language Support:selenium supports dufferent languages like java,python,c.
4Integration:selenium can be integrated with other tools and
frameworkslike testNG for reporting continuous
integration,and test management.
5.Flexibility:it supports various testing types including functional testing,regression testing,and even load testing.
6.Community support:Being open source,selenium has a large and active community that provides support and shares resources and best practices.

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