Selenium vs Microsoft Power Automate | TrustRadius

What users are saying about

Score 8.8 out of 10

Based on 245 reviews and ratings

Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 136 reviews and ratings

Attribute Ratings

Selenium is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft Power Automate is rated higher in 2 areas: Usability, Support Rating

Likelihood to Recommend

9.3

Selenium

93%

55 Ratings

8.4

Microsoft Power Automate

84%

40 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

9.2

Selenium

92%

6 Ratings

Microsoft Power Automate

N/A

0 Ratings

Usability

8.7

Selenium

87%

6 Ratings

10.0

Microsoft Power Automate

100%

3 Ratings

Support Rating

8.1

Selenium

81%

19 Ratings

8.8

Microsoft Power Automate

88%

13 Ratings

Implementation Rating

9.0

Selenium

90%

6 Ratings

Microsoft Power Automate

N/A

0 Ratings

Pros

For any web based UI automation, Selenium is the best tool out there to automate your tests.
It supports multiple coding languages like Java, Python, Ruby, C# etc.. to choose from.
There is a huge community of users and can get many answers on StackOverFlow.
It has lot of other plugins to make your tests even more efficient.

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Verified User

Professional in Quality Assurance

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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"When an item is changed in a SharePoint list, do ____" - very easy to trigger massive flows of data based upon a one-field change on a SharePoint list.
Being able to manually trigger from a Microsoft PowerApp button press to perform actions.
Scheduled tasks - once a day, get every record in (LIST) with (Filters) and do (Stuff) to them.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Outsourcing/Offshoring Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Selenium is pretty user-friendly but sometimes tests tend to flake out. I'd say roughly one out of twenty tests yields a false positive.
Selenium software cannot read images. This is a minor negative because a free plug-in is available from alternate sources.
Slowness may be a minor factor with Selenium, though this is an issue with basically any testing software since waiting on a site to execute JavaScript requires the browser to wait for a particular action.

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Manager in Quality Assurance

Civil Engineering Company, 51-200 employees

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I think general training could be improved. I'm sure there are many more uses than the simple automation tasks I was using Power Automate for, but I didn't have the time or bandwidth to dig through Microsoft's documentation on the tool.

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Verified User

Manager in Marketing

Internet Company, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Likelihood to Renew

Selenium 9.2

Based on 6 answers

We love this product mainly because of its high customization abilities and the ease of use. Moreover, its free and can be learned easily through online communities and videos. The tests are more consistent and reliable as compared to Manual tests. It has enabled us to test a large number of features all in one go, which would have impossible through manual tests. The reports generated at the end of the tests are really helpful for the QA and the development teams to get a fair view of the application.

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Siddharth Walia

Test Engineer

NexJ SystemsComputer Software, 201-500 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Usability

Selenium 8.7

Based on 6 answers

As I mentioned earlier, the reason I use Selenium is because there is a fairly widespread community of users, and user support services are at a good level. because the application is open source, it works on many platforms (Windows, Linux, IOS) without any problems. In addition, it gives us a lot of options for writing functional tests. For errors that we receive through the application, we can easily find the reasons for errors in the forums.

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Business Intelligence & Database Consultant

EMO A.ŞInformation Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees

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Microsoft Power Automate 10.0

Based on 3 answers

For most tasks WinAutomation is great and easy to use. You just set up tasks on a step by step basis and you can even tell the program what to do when there is an error (such as continue with job). Sometimes with complicated web extraction jobs it would be good to be able to easily extract data from the web page source.

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Verified User

General Manager in Corporate

Marketing and Advertising Company, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

Selenium 8.1

Based on 19 answers

Selenium does not have technical support available easily. You have to go through forums to get the information you need. However, there are excellent forums out there that make it easy to troubleshoot. The open-source flexibility makes it difficult to have dedicated support.

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Manager in Engineering

Hospitality Company, 51-200 employees

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Microsoft Power Automate 8.8

Based on 13 answers

So Microsoft Flow support for its general troubleshooting or correcting issues is excellent. But to my knowledge, Microsoft Flow itself does not have service providers, even though they offer templates on their online app. I have found myself many times trying to complete individual actions that have no known template or even forum example. Every business is unique, and Microsoft does an excellent job of providing versatile yet straightforward systems. Microsoft Flow is definitely on the more advanced side of things. Having support or being able to purchase superior service (on building personalized flows) would be great.

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Estimator and Project Manager

Century Exteriors Inc.Construction, 11-50 employees

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Implementation Rating

Selenium 9.0

Based on 6 answers

We did everything we needed to use it.Now we can execute our tests on different operational systems and browsers running few tests simultaneously.We also implemented Appium framework to execute our tests on mobile devices, such as iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets.We use SauceLabs for our test execution and Jenkins for continuous integration.

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Dmitry Shyshkin

Lead QA Automation Engineer‏

FareCompare.comMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Alternatives Considered

Sikuli is a GUI automation program that offers an alternative for web based (and any other engine) programs. Sikuli's native language is Python. However, users can customize the software with add-ons similar to Selenium add-ons. These add-ons extend the use of Sikuli to languages such as Java, JavaScript, many C based languages, etc.

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QA Lead

Inhance DigitalMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Microsoft Power Automate is the first flow-based service that I have used, and I loved its convenience. It does take some time to learn and a lot of research. I recommend that you first plan out how you imagine that the flow should work and change things around as you start creating the flows.

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Technician in Information Technology

Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

There hasn’t been a downside to using it yet other than we’ve got to update the programs we create for each change.
This has saved us hundreds of hours of manpower by allowing our automation engineer to rapid fire tests.
We are able to screenshot and save entire sites before and after launch with a program the automation engineer created
We can compare large volumes of data against data in excel docs with a program created using Selenium

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Janice Cruz (L.I.O.N.)

Quality Assurance Analyst

Deltak - Wiley Education ManagementMarketing and Advertising, 501-1000 employees

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Power Automate has allowed us to create applications or customer interfaces we would not have been able to if we weren't able to move data around like we can with Power Automate
Power Automate helped us connect 3rd party systems that previously had no connection by passing data between different channels. This reduces license counts.

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Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

Food Production Company, 501-1000 employees

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