Selenium WebDriver Reviews & Product Details

Selenium driver is an open-source library, it supports multiple languages like java, javascript, c#, python etc. It has almost all the functionalities which are required for web automation like page factory for easily maintaining the web pages, waits & action for simulating the user actions etc. Selenium WebDriver 4 is W3C compliance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Only for java documentation is great and detailed but for other languages, it's not that much great and users might face problems and need to search a lot on google. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It allows cross browser testing and working of Test scripts with access to different language for script creation which allows users to have vast to work and experience it. It supports different browsers to work and execute the test scripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For Using Selenium Webdriver, User can has a basic object oriented concepts clear for any of the language on which they want to work for script creation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is compatible with many popular programming languages, can be used on different browsers as well as on different operating systems. As such it provides lots of flexibility to users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lacks proper support of reports and analysis of older test runs. The infrastructure is not dynamically scalable. And while writing the scrips, there is no syntax check for locators. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like the most is

- Language Agnostic -- Have used selenium using multiple languages (Java, Kotlin Python etc) since it's a library all we need to know is the syntax

- Learning wise it's a best suit for even beginners as per the first point since it's a language agnostic if a tester knows the correct class / method to be used then it's a boon for both the employee and the organisation

- Though there is no paid support since it is an open source yet we can find many valuable answers for any question that you may have in Stackoverflow, medium.com etc

- easy integration with browserstack

- have used selenium code integrating with Zap tool for security testing just by routing the driver thru Zap proxy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes selenium tests can be flaky eg. it always expects the click event to be at the center of the button this means if the web page load completely then we need to use the workaround to make it pass

- shadowDom element identification is bit tough unlike cypress Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Selenium is by and large the most widely accepted solution across the entirety of automated quaility assurance for websites, so there are a lot of answers to the many questions that you'll have on pretty much any portion of the web that you end up in. However, now that there are viable options for not using selenium for web testing, Selenium no longer has the monopoly on web testing and is quickly losing to other newer and better technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unfortunately, there are so many problems baked into Selenium that it really does require a group of SDET's just to create a halfway decent framework for you to continue to run tests on Selenium. Examples include no page load retry out of the box, no ability to have multiple Ids defined for a given object on the page, no guidance for adopting things like the page object model, etc etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Selenium is the best automation tool for automating any web browser. It has many important and useful features which we can use while automating the web browser. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It supports only web-based applications and has limited support for the image testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Besides the installation and setup, Selenium WebDriver is the best choice for users starting their testing careers or taking courses in testing.

It supports a variety of programming languages.

There is a lot of material available over the internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Because it is an open-source tool, there is no support.

Need understanding of programming and OOPs.

The open-source nature of the software makes it less secure.

Selenium can not automate desktop application need to integrate other tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Selenium WebDriver is the best tool for users who are beginning their testing careers or are want to learn testing in college. Apart from the installation and basic setup, all the commands are pretty easy to understand. It has an implementation in Java and Python. It also provides a facility to store screenshots and import/export data from excel sheets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Selenium WebDriver does not have a proper framework to perform reporting of executed test cases. Apart from this limitation, currently, Selenium WebDriver is not capable to perform automation of 2FA for multiple social sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its inbuilt methods

Easy to use features

Support to languages

Ease of understanding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Limit of not anle to use it for desktop automation

Have to hse another tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using this for my testing. It supports many drivers like chrome, mozilla firefox, safari. It also supports mobile device which helps tester to test the application on mobile also Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While executing our test cases if we face any issue there is no technical support to help. And one thing I noticed is that it takes more time to create test cases. Needs prior knowledge to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.