What is "selenium-webdriver"

You can use it both through its test recording interface, the Selenium IDE, and using its API to write tests in different languages like: Java, C#, Ruby, Perl, PHP and Groovy.

It was created in 2004 at Thoughtworks Labs in Chicago by Jason Huggins, who at the time was working on an internal project called Time and Expense (T&E), which made extensive use of the Javascript language.

Thoughtworks is a globally recognized company for excellence in agile software development and has as one of its leading leaders, Martin Fowler. Subsequently, the project was opened and other people helped to evolve until we get to what we have today.

The main motivation behind the creation of Selenium is related to the inefficiency of manual testing, which took an excessive amount of time for the Thoughtworks T&E team, as well as the high cost of other similar tools on the market, that was beyond the project budget.