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February 29, 2020
Cost-effective Solution for the automated testing requirement of all your cross-platform web applications
Selenium is the tool of choice for undertaking the automated testing of the bunch of web applications and mobile applications we have built. It used across the organization in Engineering, Professional Services, and pre-sales teams. The tool allows us to function test, regression test the application, but we also use it to generate the test data required for performance testing. We use to perform the cross-browser test for our web applications
- Cross Browser Testing
- Support for Various Platform
- Parallel Test Execution
- Support for multiple programming languages
- Open-source
- Initial Setup takes a long time
- Documentation
- Support for Web-based applications only
- No reliable technical support
- The steep learning curve for non-technical testers
February 26, 2020
Worries about lack of Regression, more time of testing, here we go....Boom....Selenium!!!!!
We've developed a customized automation framework around Selenium Webdriver and other supporting tools. It's being used by all the QA departments across the organization. The real business problem it addresses is very obvious to have good coverage of Regression Test Cases, which, in a way, helps to reduce the testing time cycle.
- Reduce overall test execution time
- Automating Web UI components
- Helps to achieve great coverage of Regression Test Cases
- Support for desktop-based application automation
- Reach HTML Reports
- Browser support compatibility
February 08, 2020
One of the best frameworks for testing web applications
Selenium is one of the best testing frameworks for testing web applications. Also, it can be used for web automation activities. Selenium helps to reduce the time and effort needed for each job in our organization. So, we have been using it for five years.
- Selenium supports the number of programming languages, and it smoothly works on different operating systems.
- And it is open-source. Also, it has a large community with great support. It is a plus point of Selenium.
- Selenium IDE, Selenium Grid, and Selenium WebDriver are simple to set-up and integrate on IDEs such as Eclipse.
- The major drawback is, users need to have excellent knowledge about programming to work with Selenium. Otherwise, it is difficult.
- Selenium does not support windows-based application automation. It only supports web-based applications.
March 16, 2020
Selenium is the best for web-based automations & testing
I have used Selenium in my automation projects. It is really helpful in automating web-based applications and also it is very fast to implement in any language because it has simple code. Most of my automation projects use Selenium with C# only. I am very grateful to have Selenium. I would definitely recommend it to others as well. Kudos to those who created this awesome Selenium tool.
- We can use Selenium to automate the form-filling process.
- It can be used for data scraping.
- It can be used for Website Automations like data-process automation and data collection.
- They can improve the version that works with Winium tool.
- They can provide an easy method for data scraping.
- They can provide some sample documentation on all the features it has, with examples.
February 26, 2020
Selenium is a great tool for Automation Testing!
Our organization uses Selenium for QA purposes. It is used to automate UI and interface testing as well as implemented part of our Test-Driven Development. It helps us create many test cases and give us the ability to report back on several metrics of the performance of the system. It is used primarily by our developers, technical services, and QA teams.
- Ease of Implementation
- Best for Automated testing
- Since it is open-source, there is no technical support available except for forums.
- Difficult to use and create test cases if not familiar with it.
March 12, 2019
Crucial software for high volume testing
We 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
Selenium 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.
April 10, 2019
Powerful automation test framework for UI testing
We 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.
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
Selenium 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.
March 27, 2019
"Selenium vs RPA - No comparison"
We 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.
March 13, 2019
For web app automation Selenium is my tool of choice
We 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.
Selenium 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.
February 01, 2019
Selenium: first choice for web browser automation
Test 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.
March 18, 2019
Automating things with Selenium saves time
I 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
February 28, 2019
Selenium is the new Regression Testing
We 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.
December 10, 2018
Must have framework in your daily QA work
We'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).
December 07, 2018
Best open source test automation tool for regression testing
Selenium 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.
April 17, 2019
Selenium - Cost Efficient, High ROI, easy implementation, Strong open source community support
We 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.
March 13, 2019
Selenium - a browser automation tool
Selenium 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.
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
It 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
We 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.
We 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
June 13, 2018
Selenium - Gateway for Automation
For 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.
March 18, 2018
Selenium - The future of automation
Selenium 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.
Selenium 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.
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.
Selenium Scorecard Summary
About Selenium
Selenium is open source software for browser automation, primarily used for functional, load, or performance testing of applications.
Selenium Technical Details
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| Mobile Application: | No |