Test Automation is a software testing technique that is performed using special automating testing software tools to execute a test suite. On the contrary, Manual Testing is performed by sitting in front of a machine and carefully executing the test steps one by one. | Avni

Test Automation is a software testing technique that is performed using special automating testing software tools to execute a test suite. On the contrary, Manual Testing is performed by sitting in front of a machine and carefully executing the test steps one by one.

The test automation software can also use test data from a config repository and populate it into the System Under Test, compare expected and actual results and generate detailed test reports in various way outs like logs, screenshots, UI reports, graphs and other tabulated forms too.

One of the very famous tools to automate a software (UI) is Selenium. Selenium is a set of tools combined for better integrations. Selenium web driver is a part which helps drive test automation on UI. Web driver facilitates us with traversing through the web elements in DOM and perform the required action using different scripting languages.