Item: Selenium
Rating: 8
Author: Pradeep Moganti

Overall Satisfaction with Selenium

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Selenium is being used across multiple teams within our Engineering department.
Easy to use Test Automation Tool:
We mainly use Selenium to run some automated test cases. Since it doesn't have platform dependency and doesn’t really require learning new languages, it gives us lot of flexibility in usage. It can be easily integrated with various development platforms such as Jenkins, Maven, etc.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Open-source.
Supports multiple browsers.
Supports parallelism while running test cases.

Cons

It cannot support non web based applications like Oracle Apps.
It doesn't really have any built-in reporting for test cases.
Not suitable for IPM (Image Processing Management) related testing.

Return on Investment

After automating most of our test cases in Selenium we reduced lot of regression testing time. This gives more time to act on other components in the sprint.
Though we use Selenium for running automated testcases, there are few areas where we couldn't implement test cases due to tool dependencies.

Alternatives Considered

Protractor and Cypress

Since it is an open-source testing tool, there is no licensing cost involved. Selenium is a cross-platform tool that supports cross-browser testing. To manage and report test cases Selenium can be easily integrated with frameworks like JUnit, TestNG.

Key Insights

Do you think Selenium delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Selenium's feature set?

Did Selenium live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Selenium go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Selenium again?

Yes

Other Software Used

PyCharm, Oracle API Platform Cloud, Oracle Java SE

Likelihood to Recommend

Automation testing framework using Selenium is best suited when the same test and the same code is used for different inputs.

Selenium can be used as test automation tool
for automating Web based applications to run tests very quickly.

Selenium Support

Support Rating

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

Selenium for Web Testing