History of Selenium

The story starts in 2004 at Thought Works in Chicago, with Jason Huggins building the Core mode as "JavaScript Test Runner" for the testing of an internal Time and Expenses application (Python, Plone). Automatic testing of any applications is core to Thought Work's style, given the Agile leanings of this consultancy. He has help from Paul Gross and Jie Tina Wang. For them, this was a day job.