Let’s consider Selenium Role in software development and testing process. Each testing team requires some time for regression testing. No matter whether it is the end of sprint, or the regression testing should be conducted directly before the release. The most important is that large quantities of time can be spent on the process, if some of its part is not automated.

So, how Selenium Web Driver can help us to save our time? With its help most of user flows can be covered and the tests created using Selenium could be run in couple of minutes. So, let’s imagine that we have a project with one thousand manual test cases, and 90% of them or nine hundreds of them are covered by automated tests in Selenium. The total regression time can take 1 day if some automated tests will fail, and we will spend our time for the failure’s analysis. Nevertheless, only 10% of tests (usually Design checks or something like this) will be passed manually. If we consider a situation when all the checks should be conducted manually on the same instance, the entire regression could take one week or even more. That is the worst scenario that can happen, since time is transformed into money, so the faster testing happens, the more company’s money is saved.

So, the major role of Selenium in all the testing activities is that it allows significantly accelerate the testing process on your project. In its turn, it saves a lot of money, making your employers happier.