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What is the Difference Between Selenium and Automation?

Automation-This is a technology that can run test cases without human intervention. If we stick to the IT industry, then automation is not limited to the automation of test scripts. Automation is the least desired basic control system with minimal human intervention. Various tasks, such as data migration, decision-making for AI, automatically deploying code for testing in the latest version, etc., are included.

Objective-

  • The ultimate goal of automation is to be able to rerun regression processes without the intervention of human test personnel. Designing scripts requires some initial manual work. However, the end result is indeed time-saving. It is faster and can run many test cases in parallel on different browsers.

  • Scripts/The code is written by users and can be run multiple times with the help of automation. Then, the scripts run by Automation are automatically compared with expected results and descriptive reports.

Selenium -Selenium is an open-source test framework required for automation, or in other words, among various automation tools/In the framework, Selenium is such a framework used for automating applications.

Objective-

  • It runs test cases across multiple browsers. Again, functional testing and regression testing are key features of Selenium.

  • Although Selenese is a domain-specific language, various programming languages (such as Java, Ruby, C#, Python, PHP, .Net, etc.) can also be used to write scripts, making it more user-friendly.

The following are the tasks that Selenium Web Driver can perform-

  • Automated Testing

  • Performance Testing

  • Regression Testing

  • Mobile Testing

  • Robustness Testing

  • Application Monitoring