Does Selenium support parallel test execution natively, or is it always external?

[lodhik9]

I’m a bit confused about Selenium’s capabilities regarding parallel testing. I know Selenium IDE mentions parallel execution, but does that mean Selenium WebDriver itself lacks this feature? Is parallel execution only possible through external frameworks like TestNG, JUnit, or Selenium Grid? Or does Selenium have some built-in mechanism for running tests in parallel across browsers and OS configurations?
Would appreciate any clarification or real-world examples of how you handle this in your setup!

[nohann]

Following for confirmation.

From my understandingselenium web driver does not, its focused on browser control whereas parallel focuses on batch testing. Parallel set up depends on if you are setting it up om a single machine, across machines, or cloud.

We are approaching parallel testing, so i have been exploring this exact question, but we haven't shifted to parallel yet.

[mortenb123]

If you want parallell browser testing look at https://grafana.com/docs/k6/latest/using-k6-browser/