Selenium
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ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Selenium is the grandfather of browser testing — invented when Internet Explorer was still a thing worth testing against. It speaks WebDriver protocol to control any browser, which is powerful but also means it sometimes feels like yelling at your browser through a tin-can telephone.
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