Before I start going through the lessons I have learnt whilst in the midst of writing a Selenium Framework I would like to say that I am by no means a 'Hard Core Developer'. By this I mean coding is not my day job and I am not up together with all of the latest coding practices and lingo. Yes I have done some coding in the past but it has usually been with the help of more experienced developers. There is some debate about automated testing vs manual testing. Automated testing (which I believe should be called automated checking) can compliment a more exploratory testing approach and can provide useful information to the test team about the quality of the software under test. I think there is a market for both types of testing and combined they can teach teams a lot about the software they are producing. Overview The Selenium framework that I have started writing I have done in any spare time I have managed to find myself with. As mentioned previously I have done some cod