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Selenium — Browser Automation Framework and Ecosystem

Selenium is the original browser automation framework for testing web applications. WebDriver API supports Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge across Java, Python, C#, Ruby, JavaScript. The industry standard for E2E web testing since 2004.

介绍

Selenium is the original browser automation framework for web application testing. Created by Jason Huggins at ThoughtWorks in 2004. The WebDriver API became a W3C standard and is implemented by every major browser vendor. Supports Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge across Java, Python, C#, Ruby, and JavaScript.

What Selenium Does

  • WebDriver — W3C standard browser control protocol
  • Cross-browser — Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge
  • Multi-language — Java, Python, C#, Ruby, JS
  • Selenium Grid — distributed parallel testing
  • Selenium IDE — record and playback browser extension
  • Wait strategies — explicit and implicit waits
  • Actions API — mouse, keyboard, drag-drop
  • Screenshots — capture on failure

Comparison

Tool Protocol Cross-browser Multi-lang
Selenium WebDriver (W3C) All 5
Playwright CDP/WebDriver 3 4
Cypress In-browser 4 JS only
Puppeteer CDP Chromium JS/Python

FAQ

Q: Selenium vs Playwright? A: Playwright is more modern (auto-wait, better DX); Selenium is more mature with more language support and is the W3C standard. Legacy projects or Ruby/C# tend to pick Selenium; new projects tend to pick Playwright.

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