Selenium silent features

Selenium has set of tools which allows us to mimic user behavior on the browser.It is used for Web application test automation. Selenium can drive interactions with the web page.

Selenium silent features which makes it most powerful tool today for web application testing :

1. It supports executing of tests on multiple browser platforms. i.e Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari.  We can even create a test script that can be run on multiple browsers.
2. It supports execution on tests on multiple environments. We can run scripts on different versions of a browsers at same time
3. It support parallel tests execution.
4. It provide a tool to record and play test scripts on Firefox. a.k.a Selenium IDE. This makes it easy to learn and understand the concepts.
5. Test scripts can be written in 7 different languages like C#, Java, Ruby Python, Groovy, PHP. 
6. It is Open source and it is released under the Apache 2.0 license. So there is no need  to spend any penny for buying licences.
7. It is very useful for functional automation testing primarily. We can even use it for  very basic and limited performance tests.
8. Selenium is easy to use, flexible, robust, and portable.
9. It now supports Android and IPhone testing.
10. Selenium IDE functionality can be extended with the help of third party plugins or– we can create our own customized plugins.
11. Object oriented data driven or hybrid testing framework can be made very easily.
12. junit, testng, nuint, Mstest and many more test runners  can be used with Selenium