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Selenium
A tool for automated management of browsers. Selenium is most often used to automate and test web applications. However you can automate any other routine activities performed through the browser.
| First released | 2004 |
| Developed by | Jason Huggins |
| Latest stable version | Selenium 4 |
| Open-source | No |
| Used by | Micro Focus, BrowserStack, SauceLabs |
Interesting facts
The name Selenium comes from a joke made by Huggins in an email, mocking a competitor named Mercury, saying that you can cure mercury poisoning by taking selenium supplements. The others that received the email took the name and ran with it.
