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by hugs 2189 days ago
#FunFact: I started the Selenium project. My first job out of college was at PeopleSoft. I left PeopleSoft and went "in-house" as the PeopleSoft admin at ThoughtWorks. A few years later, Selenium came out as a side-project for another internal system we needed. But when we were rolling out Selenium and dreaming up "world domination plans", one of my mine was to get a copy of Selenium to ship with every copy of PeopleSoft (supplanting the free copy of SQA Robot that PeopleSoft shipped by default). Anyway, I never really pursued that particular "plan", but here we are.
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THANK YOU for giving us Selenium. When I first ran my script and saw the browser pop up start "running on it's own," I was pretty wowed.
Selenium is amazing and saved my sanity when I was fresh out of college in a boring office job with terrible software. Thank you for it!
Thank you for starting selenium. It has helped me in so many ways over the years.
> Selenium came out as a side-project for another internal system we needed.

What kind of system? I had thought that selenium was created to TDD web development front-end.