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Testing a website in a single browser using automation script is clean and simple way to accelerate your testing. With a single click you can test your website for all possible errors without manually clicking and navigating to web pages. A modern marvel of software ingenuity that saves hours of manual time and accelerate productivity. However for all this magic to happen, you would need to build your automation script first.

Selenium is still the most influential and well-developed framework for web automation testing. Being one of the best automation frameworks with constantly evolving features, it is poised to lead the industry in all aspects as compared to other trending frameworks like Cypress, Puppeteer, PlayWright, etc. Furthermore, using Selenium gives you the flexibility to use different programming languages like C#, Ruby, Perl, Java, Python, etc., and also accommodate different operating systems and web browsers for Selenium automation testing.

In today’s fast-paced world, the primary goal of every business is to release their application or websites to the end users as early as possible. As a result, businesses constantly search for ways to test, measure, and improve their products. With the increase in competition, faster time to market (TTM) has become vital for any business to survive in today’s market. However, one of the possible challenges many business teams face is the release cycle time, which usually gets extended for several reasons.

Parallel test execution with Selenium is one of the major factors that can affect the test execution speed. Serial execution in Selenium can be effective only if the tests have to be run on a small number of browser and OS combinations. Therefore, parallel execution should be leveraged at the early stages of QA testing to expedite test execution rapidly.