# Jason Huggins (slim)

> Jason Huggins is creator of Selenium. Selenium on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Creator of Selenium.

Jason Huggins created Selenium in 2004 at ThoughtWorks in Chicago, first as a JavaScript test runner for an internal time and expenses application.

## What Jason builds

- [Selenium](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/selenium.md), graded BB, 73.8/100, in Browser automation. Selenium is the open-source browser automation project behind the W3C WebDriver standard, with official bindings for Java, Python, C#, Ruby and JavaScript and a self-hosted Grid server that runs browsers on other machines. Creator of Selenium, founder, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [David Burns](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/david-burns/), Project and Technical Leadership Committee member; Selenium committer
- [Simon Stewart](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/simon-stewart/), Creator of WebDriver, which merged with Selenium

## Questions

### Who is Jason Huggins?

Jason Huggins created Selenium in 2004 at ThoughtWorks in Chicago, first as a JavaScript test runner for an internal time and expenses application.

### What does Selenium project (Software Freedom Conservancy) make?

Anchor Terminal lists Selenium from Selenium project (Software Freedom Conservancy).

### How are Jason's tools graded?

Selenium is graded BB, 73.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.selenium.dev/project/structure
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/theautomatedtester/
- https://www.selenium.dev/
- https://www.selenium.dev/support/
- https://www.selenium.dev/about/
- https://www.selenium.dev/history/

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.