Item: Selenium
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

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

Return on Investment

No cost of tool
User needs to know programming language
Script maintenance takes considerable amount of time

Alternatives Considered

QTP and Borland Silk Test

QTP - very costly tool
Borland Silk Test - costly and does not perform the operation well

Other Software Used

Apache Maven

Likelihood to Recommend

Selenium is well suited when web pages are rendered by server site rather than client site; less complex UI
Selenium is less appropriate when web pages are rendered by the client site; complex UI