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Top 5 Reasons to Automate Functional Tests Using Selenium

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Top 5 Reasons to Automate Functional Tests Using Selenium

Here are the 5 reasons to choose Selenium as your Test Automation tool:

Platform Portability

Language Support

Remote Control/Selenium Grid

Flexibility

Open Source Advantage

Top 5 Reasons to Automate Functional Tests Using Selenium

Platform Portability

• Automated tests can be run repetitively at no additional costs. Selenium is a highly portable tool that runs on multiple platforms as well as browsers.

Language Support

• Software is written in a number of languages. One of the Challenges faced by automated testers is integrating the automation tools with the development environment for CI. Selenium supports C#, Java and many other languages.

Remote Control/Selenium Grid

• The remote control server of Selenium allows automation testers to create a test infrastructure that is spread across multiple locations (including cloud) to drive the scripts on a large set of browsers.

Flexibility

• The flexibility of Selenium allows programmers to manage tests better.

Open Source Advantage

• Being an open source software, Selenium allows users to share, extend, and modify the available code

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Top 5 Reasons to Automate Functional Tests Using Selenium