Selenium is one of the most popular and powerful automation testing platforms. Selenium certification is not a tool but a suite of components, which are developed by open source community. The current version of Selenium suite, as of 2017, is 3.0.

In addition to Selenium 3.0, there are several automation testing tools available in the market e.g. HP UFT (Unified Functional Testing tool), TestComplete etc.

However, before we proceed further, let’s look at some of the key aspects of Selenium 3.0 suite:

• It’s open source meaning that it’s completely free
• It supports multiple languages for writing automation scripts like Java, Python, C# etc
• It also supports multiple browsers
• The open source community is wide spread and keeps on adding new components and upgrading the existing versions.

Selenium 3.0 Suite

Selenium 3.0 suite comprises of multiple components. The latest version of selenium is 3.0, which was released in 2017. Let’s have a brief look at the evolution of Selenium from the early days to the latest version 3.0.

Selenium 1.0

Selenium can be traced back to Thoughtworks’ Jason Higgins. However, several teams/individuals worked to develop various components independently. Selenium IDE was developed by Shinya Kasatani, while Selenium RC Server (Remote Control Server) was developed by Dan Fabulich and Nelson Sproul (of erstwhile BEA systems, acquired by Oracle). Jason, with support of seniors and colleagues, develop Selenium web driver and released it as Open source.

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