Note to the Reader

Hello, and welcome to Selenium! The Documentation Team would like to welcome you, and to thank you for being interested in Selenium.

We have worked very, very hard on this document. Why? We absolutely believe this is the best tool for web-application testing. We feel its extensibility and flexibility, along with its tight integration with the browser, is unmatched by available proprietary tools. We are very excited to promote Selenium and, hopefully, to expand its user community. In short, we really want to “get the word out” about Selenium.

We truly believe you will be similarly excited once you learn how Selenium approaches test automation. It’s quite different from other tools. Whether you are brand-new to Selenium, or have been using it for awhile, we believe this documentation will truly help to spread the knowledge around. Also, we have aimed to write so that those completely new to test automation will be able to use this document as a stepping stone. No doubt, experienced users and “newbies” will benefit from our Selenium User’s Guide.

Please realize that this document is a work in progress. There are planned areas we haven’t written yet. However, we have written the beginning chapters first so newcomers can get started more smoothly. We have also already added some valuable information that more experienced users will appreciate. This document will be a ‘live’ document on the SeleniumHQ website where frequent updates will occur as we complete the additional planned documentation. We really want to hear about any problems you have with the documentation, or suggestions you have for improving it. For errors, please file a bug report. Improvement suggestions should be filed as an enhancement request.

Thanks very much for reading.

– the Selenium Documentation Team