Item: Selenium
Rating: 8
Author: Yueran Zeng

Overall Satisfaction with Selenium

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are doing a design functional/UI data-driven automation testing framework using Selenium WebDriver(Java) and TestNG. We have several projects automated with selenium. They are all running reliably. This is a great way to manage the test data, it is especially good for multi-platform testing. Using Selenium, TestNG and Maven is a good set for designing the automation testing framework.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Saves time for a regression test.
Good for UAT tests.
Easy to integrate with other open source tools like Jenkins.

Cons

Comparatively slow.
Not as stable as API level testing.

Return on Investment

Might take time to develop in the early state of automation test framework design.
May need people with good knowledge for building a good framework that is easy to maintain.
Good for projects that last more than 6 months.
May not be good for short-term projects.