About the Author

Prashanth Sams is a test automation engineer contributing to the IT industry since 2011. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in information technology from Anna University and lives in Chennai, India, with his family. He started his career as a human resource executive. Later, he worked at an HR outsourcing (US recruiting) company that operates in Chennai.

He is very passionate about test automation and has chosen to be a professional software engineer. He is an active blogger and a moderator for http://seleniumworks.blogspot.in/, a blog about Selenium, and is a great supporter of the Selenium Community, responding diligently to questions and answers over professional networks. He loves emerging technologies with soft skills development and spends 14 to 16 hours a day on them. In a short span of time, he has gained rich experience in various projects, handling different automation tools. Prashanth's Twitter handle is @prashanthsams.

I would like to thank all Selenium Core committers and the Selenium Community members who spend most of their time making this open source product a successful tool. I would also like to thank the editors of this book, who are very intense and responsible for bringing about knowledge transfer to software professionals.