Must have framework in your daily QA work
December 11, 2018
Must have framework in your daily QA work
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Selenium
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).
- Time-To-Market decreased.
- Reliability increased.
- Staff costs increased because software developers in test cost much more than manual testers.
All alternatives are not listed here (like QTP), but Selenium beats all of them because it's free, there are tons of guides and tutorials on the internet, and there are lots of extra libraries that use Selenium.