Selenium

Selenium is a suite of tools to automate web app testing across many platforms.

Selenium...

• runs in many browsers and operating systems
• can be controlled by many programming languages and testing frameworks.

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Selenium Remote Control (RC) is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.

Selenium RC comes in two parts. 

1. A server which automatically launches and kills browsers, and acts as a HTTP proxy for web requests from them.
2. Client libraries for your favorite computer language.

The RC server also bundles Selenium Core, and automatically loads it into the browser.

Here is a simplified architectural representation....

Selenium Remote Control is great for testing complex AJAX-based web user interfaces under a Continuous Integration system. It is also an ideal solution for users of Selenium Core or Selenium IDE who want to write tests in a more expressive programming language than the Selenese HTML table format customarily used with Selenium Core.