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Selenium is open source software for browser automation, primarily used for functional, load, or performance testing of applications.https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/3q/9o/I2IDCMT2B304.jpegOpen SourceCrucial software for high volume testing2018-03-02T20:08:39.202ZWe use Selenium daily in my organization. We started using it to run basic automation testing of our web forms. This helped us significantly cut down on the amount of time that it was taking to manually submit lead tests. This ended up leading to full automation of entire test suites.,The ability to create testing automation
Even without technical experience, I can create test suites and validation using the recording tool
We’ve saved hundreds of hours of manual testing by creating automated test plans with this tool
It’s free,Sometimes the test sites will fail even if the page hasn’t changed,10,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,,Screaming Frog SEO Spider,3,1,The number one use case is to submit high volumes of web form leads in rapid succession.
We also use a program to crawl sites and gather information that we can compare against other documents.
A program was created to collect lead data from the backend of our web forms. It compares the results against leads in our CMS and then a user can manually review the report to determine if any leads failed to enter the system.,Selenium was initially used by manually creating test cases and building sites for each test type for different sites. It still required a lot of manual work but was the first attempt by the QA team at automation.
When full automation began in our testing we discovered that there were inconsistencies in some of our products which prevented programs from running successfully. This led to us creating standardization of coding so that we could use a single program with 4 test cases for nearly all of our products,10,No,Price
Product Features
Product Usability,10,NoJanice Cruz (L.I.O.N.)Selenium pros and cons2019-04-16T14:23:04.562ZSelenium with TestNG are being used by the QA team in my company as part of the quality assurance process. It helps cover our UI functional test cases across multiple supported browsers on different operating systems, and reduces regression testing time. The automated tests are also integration in Jenkins as a part of the continuous integration and continuous deployment processes.,Open source automation test tool
Support most of the popular web browsers
Easy to find technical supports due to huge community
Can be integrated with almost any software development tools,Need to have programming skill (at least basic) in order to learn.
Built-in methods can be inconsistent across browsers. For example, an element might not be clickable on a browser, although it is clickable on another browser.
Advanced programming skills are required if you want to master everything supported by Selenium.
Only support web applications.,8,Reduce manual effort
Reduce time to run regression testing
Improve test result accuracy,TestComplete,TestComplete, Unified Functional Testing (formerly HP UFT)Trung TruongPowerful automation test framework for UI testing2019-04-10T23:53:46.087ZWe use Selenium as a standard automation tool for our department for all web projects. We implement common test frameworks with library and common test cases. Then in each project, it will extend this test framework and add its all-test case into it but could re-use common cases, such as login or verify the connection.
We use Selenium, Postman, and JMeter to have the full automation test framework which supports UI, API testing and performance testing
We integrate Selenium with our Gitlab CICD pipeline to check the functioning of the build as automation test case are triggered on every merge on the master branch.,It supports multiple browsers and many programming languages
Selenium documentation is rich and clear, and it has a big community with great support
Selenium IDE, Selenium Grid, and Selenium WebDriver are simple to set up and integrate on IDE such as Eclipse
It able to perform testing on almost every kind of UI component
Well integrated with other DevOps tool such as Jenkin and Gitlab to automate CICD pipeline,It is too complex for the newer people to get started on
Execute time is slow. It takes a lot of time to finish all the test cases
Add feature get JS script console error
Not much support on performance and API testing,9,Selenium helps us to automate almost all of our test functions, so we could develop a new feature and get it to go live quicker without spending much effort on regression test current functions.
Save our efforts on developing automation test framework and test case. It saves effort on manual testing.
Have full CICP pipeline, from the build to unit test to functional testing.,Postman and JMeter,JMeter, Postman, Gitlab, Jenkins, Apache Tomcat, PostgreSQLHung VuSelenium with Python makes a great combo for your web automation and testings!2019-04-10T17:19:26.825ZSelenium is used within our team of R and D analysts. We use Selenium with Python 3 for web automation. Selenium web driver for Chrome on Linux machines is a very smooth experience. The Web Driver API is available for most popular web browsers. Most of our marketing forms are filled up by Selenium automation. Data scraping using BeautifulSoup 4 with web automation makes it simpler to extract data from websites. We first trigger a website using Selenium, and then use BeautifulSoup for data scraping from that website.,Web browser integrations and support. It has a large community so as to debug your code easily.
Python and Selenium make a perfect match.
Better web scraping in Python with Selenium, Beautiful Soup, and Pandas; it's very easy to scrape data in key-value pairs that are converted from HTML tags.,Selenium is not as fast as some industry tools. Not good for large scale production.
Mismatch with tools. There are cases when some websites are not Selenium ready, and the content is dynamic.
HTML tags and DOM.
Selenium requires good programming skills. There are tools in the market already which do all the automation and data scraping using drag and drop options.,7,Fast and automated testing of a website can be done without any human workforce behind it.
Sometimes programming is an easy and faster method than drag and drop. For this, Selenium happens to be a great open source tool with no cost.
A person with a Python background is all needed for Selenium; no other skill is needed. The Selenium WebDriver API is easily understandable.,AntWorks ANTstein, WinAutomationShivani Sharma"Selenium vs RPA - No comparison"2019-03-28T00:54:01.622ZWe use Selenium in our web development tool and for automation most of the time. Our mains purpose in using Selenium is to automate google forms. We have various sources of input for our events and registrations, but we have to have our all data collectively at one place. So when a user of ours uses our Android app, our website's google forms, or Survey Monkey, we need all of the data on google sheet. We club all data to a CSV and use Selenium to populate google form and sheets, and this way we have all of our data in one place. This complete process gets automated by Selenium.,First things first, Selenium is open source, thus providing a large community to help out. Most of the times when our team gets struck with some Regex problems or Syntax issues we directly go to the community page and get it done very fast.
Our Ubuntu based environment makes it favorable to work with Python and Selenium. Our clients, mostly with Windows systems, send us their script and we rectify them on Linux. This makes it a script-based and logic-centric tool. No barrier to the OS or Platform.
The preloaded libraries for Selenium make it suitable to work fast with repeated business goals. It is very easy to locate Tags, HTML elements, CSS, etc. Our Chrome and Firefox based scripts work seamlessly on all platforms.,The technology lacks fault tolerance. Whenever we automate a google form with a centralized CSV, there is always a chance of getting a "NaN Error," i.e, no value error. Some of the fill-ups in google forms are always optional and there's no constraint to fill them, which leads to the input being marked as empty or no value. Thus we have to add if-else logics for the same things.
When we scrape data using Selenium, we always end up with fewer values than expected. Suppose we have a table to import/scrape, Selenium updates the table in the spreadsheet real-time, and open-writes each time rather than making a buffered-table in its memory and updating the spreadsheet at once.
Scripts written for Internet Explorer always need debugging to work with Firefox and Chrome in an Ubuntu/Linux environment. Though we mostly use chrome in windows to write logic, some of the webpages are IE friendly.,2,Firstly, we moved our partial work environment from Linux/Ubuntu to Windows as Tools for automation rolled out in 2016, like RPA Tools. Though you cannot compare RPA with Selenium, our business goals satisfied quite well with RPA tools.
Secondly, we had our engineers already familiar with Ubuntu and Python until we integrated Selenium. Soon we had to recruit new interns for RPA, and some of our permanent members had to learn RPA.
Though having a large community, you don't always get lucky enough to have required Regular Expressions (Regex). You always have to brainstorm before initiating the Python script. It is very time-consuming to find proper tags and selectors from a webpage payload.,UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform,UiPath Enterprise RPA PlatformSanyam JainFor web app automation Selenium is my tool of choice2016-01-11T17:06:16.679ZWe use a Selenium based test automation framework (developed in-house) for testing of our web-based application using variety of browsers.,I have used selenium in several technology organizations and one strength that I see is that Selenium can be integrated into frameworks written using different programming languages which allows for native support from organizations development teams and eliminates the need of introducing other languages.
Selenium has a powerful object identification mechanism which provides the ability to create custom object repositories and map out entire application interfaces before the tests are even developed.
The Selenium community is extremely helpful and even for beginners there are answers available for most questions and challenges that may come up.,As some web applications update content dynamically I have experienced "stale element exception" quite a lot and it would be a helpful feature if selenium had a find element retry mechanism embedded into the framework itself.,10,In one of the companies I have implemented automation using selenium decreased testing time by 70%.
It helped us convert large data source files into production data through automating data entry process using Selenium as a driver.,QTP,JMeter,5,4,Production monitoring
UAT
Early automation while products are still in development,Data set-up through web interface for entering multiple accounts into the system instead of manually executing the same tedious task,Mobile testing though mobile browser drivers,10,No,Price
Product Usability
Product Reputation,I would not change anything. This tool would be my choice again if necessary,Implemented in-house,Yes,Change management was minimal,Browser version compatibility. Chrome and IE had a completely different way of handling certain functions (like clicks and entering text). We had to perform research and multiple improvements to support all browsers with the same code-base.,10,No,9,No,All basic web page control functions are pretty straightforward.
One would need to learn how to handle exceptions gracefully in order to use selenium tests in a stable environment.,Selenium does not have support for various browsers out of the box. You need to learn how to instantiate and configure each web driver for every browser and they are all different.
Entering text in windows pop-up (like file save and load dialogue) is not supported as well, I had to use workaround like actions to do that which is not very reliable.,8Alex KrestonSelenium is a really good option for testing web based applications!2019-03-04T17:28:16.711ZSelenium is currently being used by developers to be able to increase test coverage in addition to Cucumber scenarios for the front-end product and also in order to provide regression tests by QA team besides SOAPUI and Postman. My two employers finally decided to go on with this tool, considering it's open sourced and has relatively wide community support. I had found the opportunity to use also other ones, however, Selenium seems more talented on its stack, and they provide some advantages on some edge cases.,It is a self-proven open source tool and has rich language support. It is cut out for regression tests on HTML based web application subject.
It is a relatively easy to use and robust tool for developers, and essential for the QA professionals.
On basic flows, the record and play feature is really nice, especially for noncomplex pages.
Implemented Regression Tests could save your day one day.,Mobile testing should probably be evaluated, as that may require another horizontal spreading to accept another subject/profession.
Updates that are not planned well may break your automation.
Sometimes, somehow, it can raise false alarms about assertions that may be hard to manage.,9,Although initial investment in terms of man efforts seems high, its return would be much more.
This tool can enhance developer-tester collaboration.
These types of test tools enable a team to be more self-confident, and makes for fewer bugs after production.Mustafa Yildirim, MSc, PMP, PSMAutomating things with Selenium saves time2019-03-18T20:03:45.394ZI use Selenium in my daily use as I am a tester. Through Selenium we inject JavaScript into HTML code in different browsers to test our GUI website. We don't need a strong technical background to use Selenium. It saves lot of time when automating websites rather than testing them manually. Selenium is open source, so anyone can use it and provides wide community support. It supports multiple browsers.,Saves a lot of time
Open source, large community support. Everything is easily available on the internet.
Record and play features,Should support the same code in different browsers, because we need to change the code as per browsers
It does not support mobile testing
Sometimes it gets very slow,7,Free of cost
Saves time rather than doing it manually
More functional testing,EclipsePankaj RawatSelenium is the new Regression Testing2019-02-28T19:16:33.282ZWe use Selenium to test e2e testing by the QA automation team and its used across the organization. It addresses the problems and difficulties of regression testing.,Quality Assurance has worked better with Selenium since this program helps eliminate manual QA testing, which itself could lead to exponential error, and cost.
Selenium can automate any part of a web page if it is based on HTML. So if you want to check it, open the CRM web application, open the browser console and confirm if all the elements required for your automation test are based on HTML.
You can only test HTML based websites with Selenium. If the CRM application exposes an HTML based front end that is accessible via a web browser then you can use Selenium to test it, if not you can't.,The non-HTML components of a web page cannot be accessed by Selenium. You might want to use Image Based testing tools like Sikuli.
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.,6,QA engineers found value in repeating mundane duties that they perform daily. It saved mental energy due to the automation process.
High volume usage in setting up meetings as well as new accounts with A/B testing. Also merely cleaning up old test documents by evaluating and deleting them
Helps in generating detailed cost report for the management.,,JIRA Software, QASymphony, Sauce LabsLakshmi AcharySelenium - Cost Efficient, High ROI, easy implementation, Strong open source community support2019-04-17T17:02:09.583ZWe are working in testfactory in the IT department of my organization which is responsible for providing test services to multiple projects run by different departments. We have implemented a Selenium page object model with cucumber BDD framework. We have automated multiple applications like web CRM and mobile. The programming language we have used is Java. Automation team consists of 6 team members. The automation team is responsible for developing and maintaining automation for multiple applications. Automated tests are integrated with Jenkins (CI/CD) to run in nightlies. Other tools in integration we use are GIT, MAVEN etc.,Selenium is an open source software so its Free and has a very strong user community support.
Selenium Supports cross browser automation, API automation and database automation.
Selenium tests can be implemented in any language like Java, python, ruby, C# etc.
Selenium test can be easily integrated with existing testing framework testNg, Junit etc.,Selenium does not support windows based application automation.
Selenium test development requires developer coding skills to make test dynamic.
Selenium is purely open source no customer support exists but have a huge open source community which encounters and solves similar problems.,9,We are able to do complete regressions in 2 days which was earlier taking 4 days.
Due to the page object model we also run progression automation for quick front-end changes.
BDD test can be easily implemented and re-used by manual testers as well.,Unified Functional Testing (formerly HP UFT) and Tricentis Tosca,Unified Functional Testing (formerly HP UFT), Tricentis Tosca, Ranorex StudioVerified UserSelenium - a browser automation tool2017-09-13T20:33:15.016ZSelenium is used in my company for automated testing in web applications, and it allows us to avoid manual regression testing, and also allows us to fix regression bugs faster and more easily. It's fully integrated to CI, with a Selenium Grid being responsible to launch all browser drivers (allows Chrome, Firefox, IE/Edge, PhantomJS, etc...).
It has a big community, which allows you to easily get lots of questions answered when a problem occurs. Also, it has support for multiple open source frameworks for test execution (Protractor, per example) and also for test reporting. Their web browser drivers allow us to replicate almost all interactions that a user could do, which offers a really good set of events to test web applications.,Open Source
Huge community
WebDrivers with lots of capabilities
Integration with CI tools like Jenkins
Basis for multiple automatic testing frameworks,You need to really understand how to configure Selenium, otherwise your integration could be really painfull
Slow to start up,7,More confidence on releases
Continuous integration only occurs when all regression tests run with success
Allow integration as a grid, which allow to have multiple instances of Selenium running at same time,AdClarityVerified UserSelenium at a glance2017-04-20T20:57:18.391ZIt is used by most of the scrum team to automate web page testing. It's being used across the whole organization. It is used as UI automation tool. Scripts are written for smoke, sanity and regression testing purpose.,Lightweight and open source, so it's easy to download.
Can be integrated into any Java or Javascript framework for automation testing.
Supports multiple browser and multiple scripting language.,Should have a better locator strategy for modern day complex javascript pages
There are multiple types of waits, it should come up with a unique wait strategy
Should have option to highlight each action such that user can undersand what action the tool is performing,10,No cost of tool
User needs to know programming language
Script maintenance takes considerable amount of time,QTP and Borland Silk Test,Apache Maven,5000,,Running functional Test,Not sure,Basically we are using for automatin the web.,10,No,Price
Product Features
Product Usability
Product Reputation
Prior Experience with the Product
Third-party Reviews,not sure,Implemented in-house,we did n't face much issue,8,6,No,not sure,UI automation,page which does not have unique locators,8Verified UserSelenium Review2018-01-18T19:27:51.925ZWe used selenium to test our applications across the technology department. It helps test our products to ensure they do not contain bugs for our end users.,It provides automation to test products well.
It is fairly easy to use with good documentation, which is of course important for trying to learn a new product.
It is an industry leader so has good support within the community.,I think selenium IDE can use some improvement. It is a good, easy, quick product to use, however, I have noticed over the past few months that it is no longer supported on newer Firefox browsers, which is unacceptable.
selenium IDE should work on other browsers besides Firefox.,8,Reducing manual testing efforts, which reduces costs
Reducing bugs seen by end users,,JIRA Service Desk, JIRA Software, Trello, Sauce Labs, BrowserStack, Google Drive, Dropbox, Slack,50,,smoke tests
regression tests
deployments,we have used selenium to test browsers, operating systems, and devices that we do not have physical access to,We can expand on on out test suite,7Verified UserSelenium: first choice for web browser automation2019-02-02T01:53:28.754ZTest scripts for our customers are being executed in the backend which uses Selenium as a core framework.,Selenium has wide range of language bindings.
As an open source framework, it has fewer bugs in its source code.
A lot of people are using Selenium, you can find answers to almost every question on the internet.,Selenium 4 will finally have the opportunity to interact with the browser itself instead of with a driver.
Cross-browser testing is a bit hard with Selenium as different browsers sometimes need different codes. That needs to be streamlined.,9,Selenium is free to use.,Atlassian ConfluenceMichael FleckSelenium: One of the best Automation tool available in the market for FREE2018-11-28T21:41:03.510ZWe use Selenium primarily for testing the Web Applications that are being developed for the clients. It is mainly used by the QA department for writing automated scripts using Java and Javascript for testing various scenarios in the application. The QA team constantly keeps adding more test cases to the test suites to ensure maximum coverage and then combine it with Jenkins to run the test cases over night, so that we can get the test reports in the morning.,Record and play feature that lets you record all the steps with a click of a button
The intelligent fields selection feature lets you use the locators that you can find easily, rather than being confined to Xpaths
The large selection of languages that can be used to write test scripts, if you have a knowledge of any programming language, you can easily get started with Selenium
Free of Cost !!!,Reading images is one area that might be implemented in Selenium
The slowness can be decreased, but I think that not just with Selenium, it could be with any Software
Not able to perform Database testing using Selenium,9,It helps in quick execution of regression suite at the end of the sprints, so the QAs do not have to manually test everything
It is easy to learn, therefore someone with lesser development experience can easily get started with it
It's free, therefore it only brings profit to the organization in any ways that it can,Quality Center (formerly HP Quality Center),WebEx Meetings, Quality Center (formerly HP Quality Center), Oracle Access Management, SoapUI NG Pro,,2,Ensure end-to-end testing
Test new features added in the application by adding new test scripts to the test suites
Generate test reports to conclude the test results
Locate the elements to point to the right location in the Web Application,Our company is trying to develop a new layer to be used over Selenium in Eclipse which makes the testing process easier
Finding the locators has been made relatively easier as the new layer spits out the locator of the respective element,we are trying to automate all the manual test cases to help us save more time and run the regression every night,9,No,Price
Product Features
Product Usability
Product Reputation
Prior Experience with the Product
Analyst Reports,No. for now, we would still chose SeleniumSiddharth WaliaMust have framework in your daily QA work2018-12-11T02:14:25.376ZWe're using Selenium WebDriver and Hub daily across the whole organization. We cover the most routine test cases on a daily basis to prevent any human-related errors. We get plenty of scheduled jobs to run tests overnight and get results quickly. Web GUI testing became easier for everyone on the team.,Open source.
Allows use of different languages.
Huge community.
Supports many browsers.,Very slow UI tests (it's not Selenium's flaw, but the whole process).
Selenium Hub has lots of restrictions and not all written tests passed locally will run on it.
Mobile testing is not supported (you need an extra solution).,9,Time-To-Market decreased.
Reliability increased.
Staff costs increased because software developers in test cost much more than manual testers.,,JMeter, DockerIlya PopovichBest open source test automation tool for regression testing2018-12-08T02:59:10.775ZSelenium as an open source test platform/ framework is used by the whole organization. It is used as automation testing framework and widely used for UI testing.,One of the best user communities.
Easy to learn and bring new folks who are new to test automation up to speed.
Works well with many new plugins and test frameworks.
Open source is a better alternative to HP UFT when it comes to UI testing.,Best suited for UI testing - would be nice if this could be developed/ tweaked for unit testing as well.
Support for mobile testing.
Performance testing.,9,Since this is open source and easily adaptable, it is well suited for small to large organizations' testing needs.
Limited only to functional / UI testing - means organizations will have to use the tool only at the end of the testing cycle for regression testing only.
Tons of resources available in the market to support the testing efforts on Selenium and easy to learn and adapt.,,AppiumOm Prakash SheshappaSelenium - The future of automation2018-03-18T19:59:30.082ZSelenium is used by just our department which is quality assurance. We use it basically for the GUI regression testing. We have a virtual private branch exchange and a lot of telecom features available for the call centre workplace. The selenium tests help with automating and running the entire GUI checks each time a new feature is deployed. This is scheduled as a cron job that runs overnight and gets the results in a graphical format.,Complete GUI regression.
Integration with other in-house apps thus providing various features like display of results in graphical format.
Ease of use and the freedom to code in the language you are comfortable with.,Use of selenium in desktop applications.
Enhancing the selenium uses to backend testing along with front end.
Improvements in the ways in which it can display the result.,8,Time saving.
Saves efforts.
Error free code.
Easy addition of new features.,QTP,Katalon Studio, Panguin ToolSachin KalakeriSelenium, Still the best automation tool on the market2018-05-22T19:10:19.987ZCreate a WebDriver instance.Navigate to a Web page.Locate an HTML element on the Web page.Perform an action on an HTML element.Anticipate the browser response to the action.Run tests and record test results using a test framework.Conclude the test.,Selenium is the best UI and Data automation tool currently on the market.
Ease of use is a primary selling point,I am ok moving from the free model if enhancements and updates can continue
This is the best tool on the market and a little bit of IT support would go a long way!,10,It ensures higher ROI on the initially huge investments done.
You can test 24*7 from a remotely held device as well.
There is less manual intervention, so the possibility of errors diminishes.
It makes the test scripts reusable – need new scripts every time even with changes in the version of the OS on the device and the tests can recur without any errors.
Automation helps you find bugs at an early stage.
Automated tests make the process more reliable and the tests more dependable.
Most importantly, it enables testing in volumes. For instance, it allows you to run tests on thousands of mobile devices. Now, this is impossible with Manual Testing.Randy SnowSelenium - Gateway for Automation2018-06-13T22:22:24.227ZFor one single department, we used Selenium software for our website application implementation. It was helpful in testing software infrastructure without a need to focus resources and time on learning new test scripting languages. We also utilized Selenium in assisting with the creation of automation that was carried out in test browsers. It was also beneficial for generating reports that we required.,The efficiency in testing is beneficial with Selenium because without the questioning the potential usefulness of software, we wouldn't really be able to confirm that certain web applications will perform the way we want them to.
Quality Assurance has worked better with Selenium since this program helps eliminate manual QA testing, which itself could lead to exponential error, and cost.
A strength of Selenium is also the array of tools as well as cross-platform capability. The remotely controlled server acts as a device platform for JavaScript, PHP, Perl, and Ruby.,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.,8,Generation of detailed finding reports helped in cost savings in regard to direct labor.
Quality Assurance technicians found value in repeating mundane duties that they perform daily. It saved mental energy due to the automation process.
The value was established in high volume usage in setting up meetings as well as new accounts with A/B testing. Also merely cleaning up old test documents by evaluating them and organization or deletion.,,Micro Focus ALM, Workato, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Data Center Switching SolutionVerified UserMy take on Selenium2018-01-30T16:14:47.563ZSelenium was under review by my department when we were starting with automation. The main drive to use selenium was that it was free and it had a large community. It also supported many different languages and can be easily implemented with other software including Apache JMeter. It was also looked as a way to test API using scripting languages.
What made Selenium sound great was the compatibility with Firefox and other web browsers. It is a great tool for people who like to use playback and record and insert data using Excel or other programs. It's easy to upload and to use.,One of the main features is that it is free to use.
Compatible with different languages such as Java, Javascript, Python and many more
A vast online community where users can go and get information and ask questions regarding any issues they may be having,No support at all. Since selenium is open source you will not get any support. The only support is the online community.
Updates can break your system. If you are new to selenium and update without doing much research there's a chance that it could break your automation scripts.
Community support can sometime take days to get an answer you're looking for.,6,Too difficult to understand for a company getting into Automation
No central support from a company
Company will have to be ready to spend time training new selenium users which can take weeks or months.,TestCompleteDonny DeLeonSelenium Review2017-12-05T15:35:15.642ZSelenium is an web automation tool, which was used by testers for automating web applications. Instead of doing regression testing manually, Selenium was used so that once script is coded, it can be used to run as many times as required. As Selenium was open source, it was easy and installing eclipse then including the Selenium jar files was an easier task.
The scripts can be executed in batch overnight / during weekends to ensure that application is working as per the requirements. Also, doing manual testing across multiple browsers, which is tedious & time consuming task, can be solved by using Selenium tools.,Using Selenium Webdriver we were able to automate the web applications easily.
Using different frameworks (Hybrid / Data driven), it was easy to execute the test scripts / suits.
Selenium Grid can be used to perform parallel testing on different computers.
The Java program which was used for scripting was easy to learn and code accordingly.
The record & playback feature of IDE is a simple tool that can be used to understand about automation testing.
Cross browser testing can be performed using Selenium.,Sometimes Selenium does not locate all the elements properly.
It was bit difficult to use Selenium with IE browser, as there is less support from IE browser and even we will not be able to find the elements easily in IE.
Selenium IDE lacks some crucial functionalities.
The options to locate various web elements using classpath, name, xpath of the object is limited and cannot be extended.
Sometimes Selenium test suites takes more time to run.,9,Positive impact: Using Selenium saved lot of time & effort that was used for manual testing.
Cross browser testing was an easier task.
The Eclipse, all Selenium jar files was easy to use and also the IDE feature was helpful in understanding about automation testing.
Negative impact: Its bit slow at times while recording the script.,SAHI and TestComplete,TestCompleteSuhas Kashyap RRSelenium use and beyond2017-09-05T17:13:10.731ZSelenium basically is being used for automation of an internal website by one of our clients, Huawei. It is a good open source tool, and since it is open source, it has replaced the legacy automation (paid) for better results.
We have coupled the Selenium framework with REST and use the test cases to automate the 564 test cases for the application which have been integrated to CI.
Since Infosys caters to hundreds of clients, [use by] the whole organization would be an over estimation in my view, but it is catching on throughout the organization to automate repetitive flows.,It is open source.
Can be scripted in both Python and JAVA. I have recently started to code in Python and it reduces the complexity tremendously well.
It has a huge online open source community, so almost all the queries are answered.,I feel it is very slow.
The websites should follow certain standards for naming and easy processing of automation. There should be guidelines to code about naming and various other attributes of website development. It is difficult to go through or automate bad code with redundant tag names, bad formation and equally bad suggestions.
I think there should be Windows support. We can couple it with AutoIt, but by default, if [Windows support were available] it would be a huge help .,7,I feel Selenium solved the problem of CI integration and code refactoring issues.
It solved the problem of finding the loop holes and patches which had been amiss.
A framework should be made open source in market for website automation as well.,jubula, auto it and QTPShardul NegiSelenium Tool Review2017-11-13T16:41:48.690ZIt is used by our company to automate several web based products.,First of all, It is open source, so it means it is zero cost to my company.
Second, it has a huge Selenium community and support for Selenium development.
With multiple browser supports by multiple browser APIs, I can easily automate and test my web applications many browsers.,Some of the browser APIs still don't have a stable build which causes the scripts to crash sometimes.
Need to work with many third party frameworks (TestNG, Firebug etc) right from object identification, reporting, integrations with other ALM solutions etc. It doesn't have its own framework for those.
Since the object locator is also the third party, locating objects becomes a challenge to find those objects. One needs to have Selenium's own object locators built within Selenium.
UI Tests are often slower.,8,Reduced the Tool cost of the project budget as it was free.
Faster test cycles helped test builds in less amount of time especially when the test team size was reduced from 6 to 2.,Test Complete,IBM Rational Functional TesterDheerendra SinghSelenium Benefits2017-09-13T16:41:24.678ZOur whole organization pretty much uses selenium to validate UI of web applications. It usually run on a daily and even several times a day basis. It executes the whole regression test suite whenever a new build is pushed.,It captures pictures.
Great for creating UI test and validating elements.
We can use selenium to execute parallel tests.,Sometimes it can provide false failures.
Wish it was easier to run selenium across multiple browsers.,10,Quick release turn around.
Because of selenium testing it is now possible to have frequent release cycle.Verified User
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