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Reflections on “Selenium’s 20-Year Birthday”
Happy Birthday to the has-always-been the best Web Automation Framework, since 2011 (when Selenium 2, i.e. Selenium WebDriver)
This article was originally published on Substack on 2024–11–08
If you work in software testing and are relatively active on social media, you might have seen the “Happy 20-Year Birthday to Selenium” posts like the above. The below is the official one on the Selenium site.
https://www.selenium.dev/blog/2024/selenium-milestone-20yrs-blog/
My journey in end-to-end test automation began in 2005, back when Selenium was still in its infancy. I’ve been actively involved in the evolution of Selenium and web test automation for nearly 20 years, and here, I’d like to share some of my insights.
FYI: Selenium and Selenium WebDriver are the same thing since 2011.
Selenium WebDriver, in my opinion, has been and still is the best Web (Browser) Automation Framework. It leads its competitors by a big gap (I know some will disagree, read on, and I will provide proof shortly).
