What exactly is Selenium?
Frank Cohen: Selenium is a combination of tools and a domain specific language (DSL) to build and operate functional, smoke tests, and integration tests of Web applications, including Rich Internet Applications (RIA, using Ajax.) Selenium provides a record/playback tool that plugs-into the Firefox browser. The recordings use the Selenese DSL to express the steps of a test. Selenium plays-back the test steps in the browser using a Javascript-based Browserbot daemon. Selenium Remote Control (RC) runs the test in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome and other browsers. Selenium Grid makes it easy to run these tests in a grid of test machines. DZone: How long has the project been around? And how long have you been using it? Frank Cohen: Selenium had its start at ThoughtWorks, a system integrator and global consulting firm. The core developers released Selenium into an open source distribution in 2006. I have been using Selenium since 2007. I was looking for a way to repurpose
