Selenium

When you have to test the UI and how it behaves when certain actions are performed, you need something that can automate the browsers. This is where Selenium comes to the rescue. If you have to test APIs and not the frontend (UI), I would recommend going with other libraries that support HTTP Requests. Selenium is good only when you have no choice but to run the steps on a browser.

Selenium is well suited for test case automation in two ways. The first way is by providing a framework for writing the test cases, qualifying the newly developed features by the developers. The second way is by [furnishing] the Selenium grid which is the infrastructure for running the automated test cases seamlessly. It is less appropriate in cases of running JUnit, [I believe].

Selenium is one of the few tools on the market that allows interaction with a browser that is open-source, so it would be really hard to fault/beat it. It's actually available to use in many languages (like Java, Javascript, Python, etc.), so it does cater to many out there. The use case is simple, but powerful, "to imitate a real user interacting with a webpage". This opens up so much in regards to Front end automation and will automate many of your test cases which you would normally manually perform, in a much slower and error-prone way. In addition, you could write scripts to act as tools, if say an API isn't exposed to you. For example, you could create scripts to register an account on a website with different randomised usernames each time. So not just limited to testing. The only downside is that Selenium could hit a scenario where it becomes stuck, then it will crash and require you to debug where it went wrong. But this is more down to the logic of the scripts rather than Selenium itself. You would need to know your product well to cater to these scenarios as Selenium won't handhold you to why things crash/fail.

Automating any web application on a web browser like Chrome, Selenium makes it very easy to automate the web application. Selenium provides many inbuilt methods to use which make users attract. It is also very easy to learn and also it can implement well with many of the other languages.

If you need to test web applications, Selenium is the de-facto testing platform. Tons of community support and the fact that the software is open source means you will find a plethora of resources if you ever have a question about the product. You will need programming experience to get the most out of it, and if you are looking to test desktop or mobile applications, look elsewhere.

1. For browser-based applications definitely Selenium is best 2. For ERP applications such as SAP unable to automate it. 3. I used all web retail applications and was very helpful and within 6 months time frame able to build UI and REST services framework and deliver critical business processes.

For me, Selenium is the Swiss Army knife for tests, it is possible to use it everywhere, especially in that cases: As a web driver for software like ZAP. Any software that needs to drive web interface in some places needs to be tested with other software To validate acceptance criteria. Is possible to write selenium tests before implementation and use them to validate the user interaction Regression tests on UI. As above is also possible to check that there is no regression in the usage user experience The big concern is about the possibility to maintains Selenium solutions on a big number of microservices, in that case, other solutions can be used.

Pros: Open-sourced and free: Multiple language support: The community: Wide plugin support: Easy installation and intuitive usage: Cross-browser support: Remote testing: Multiple testing and parallel testing execution: Cons: False-positive results: Long test duration: No root-cause analysis: Performance

Scenarios where Selenium is well suited:
Web UI automation
Parallel execution of tests
Works with 8 coding languages of your choice
Can be easily integrated with CICD pipelines like Jenkins
Scenarios Where Selenium is not the best fit
Windows applications automation
Mobile automation
Visual validation

- Most importantly, it is an open source tool. - Parallel executions (same browser in parallel, different browser in parallel). - Remote executions using Node and Hub. - Integration with CI tools like Jenkins - Multi-platform support (for details have a look at http://www.seleniumhq.org/about/platforms.jsp). - Cross-browser Support (Chrome, Firefox, different versions of IE, Safari, Opera). - Supported environments are Windows, Linux & Mac. - Supports different scripting languages (JAVA, C#, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Objective C, Javascript). - Huge user community.

Selenium is a “Browser Automation” tool, as defined on the website, that is, a tool that allows us to automatically create and operate certain testing steps of websites through our web browser. For example, when we want to test the correct and incorrect operation scenarios of the user registration page of our website, we can automate steps such as opening the user registration page with Selenium, filling in the input fields on the page, clicking on the button... So it makes it easier for us to do functional tests of our practice.

The Selenium app has a pretty fat community of users. For the problems we are experiencing, we are primarily receiving support from these communities. In addition, there is widespread service support. Instant support is given to the problems we experience when we need Online support. We and our team are happy to provide this support, especially before important deployment processes

Selenium is easy and robust to use. Also, it's easy for a beginner to get a grasp of the framework.

Selenium has helped our organization to save lots of resource costs in terms of manpower and time. It helps automate our workflow and removes all the mundane work.

There is no dedicated support from product. We should always rely on the community for any kind of help.

Web applications are well suited by the use of Selenium. For example, many of our creations are web based, which make selenium a viable option for our automation needs. However, a prodigious size of our products are created from a proprietary engine. This being said, selenium is not an option for the majority of our products.

This forces us to find other suitable automation software for more than 2/3 of our products.

Selenium is well suited for web-based automation projects, and it is mainly used in a testing framework as well. I think it is best suited for automation as well as testing. We can even do mobile automation using Selenium. We can do Windows, web, and mobile automation using Selenium. That is a big plus for Selenium.

Overall, I love Selenium. So I will go with full 10.

Selenium is an excellent tool for automating the testing of web applications. If you have an application that has is heavily focused on the user experience and interface, it can make it easier to test and create use cases and be reported on it. It can also help test the application with multiple browsers, which has always been a challenge for tech software companies. Selenium is not useful for automating web scraping, etc.

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.

Selenium is best suited for web and mobile-based automation testing. Mainly an automation framework built around selenium web driver is used for Regression Testing coverage, hence testing time can be reduced.

Selenium is less appropriate for organizations where desktop-based applications are being used, and they are looking for automation solutions.

Well, selenium is an open-source tool, and it might not have a dedicated Customer Support team. You can seek help from its wide-open community who are always there to support, but one needs to post their queries on relevant open forums and websites. But still, it's so widely used product. You can easily get help from all the open forums on the net.

Selenium does not support Windows-based application automation. It only supports web-based applications.

They have excellent customer and community support.

Well suited:
- For Web and mobile-based automation
- For cross-browser automation
Less suited:
- Selenium is not a tool for automation of windows-based applications like mainframe, .Net , Java etc.

Selenium is well suited for testing web applications. It supports almost all popular web browsers on the market. It is very effective to help reducing regression testing time of the team. As any other automation tools, you should not automate test cases that only run for once. It is also not suitable for database nor web service testing.

Selenium is best suited for Python and Linux machines. With Python and the Selenium web-driver, it works very smoothly. Following are the use cases of Selenium which we use:
1. Testing websites.
2. Data Scraping.
3. Form filling.

Most Suited: When you are working with Linux/Python it's best to have Selenium for only web-based automation. In addition, we did not have any automation tools for Linux until now (Like UiPath or Automation Anywhere), thus Selenium is a good choice.
Less Suited: If you are completely work-based in Windows and no one on the staff has issues with the Windows UX, one should always go for UiPath.

For automating websites it saves a lot of time

Selenium is a great solution for web based application testing. I had to use another framework for testing APIs.

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