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Selenium comes with many advantages, but it is widely accepted as it is an open source and community driven. It provides compatibility between different browsers and platforms which significantly reduces the workload of testing it across various browsers and platform. It supports almost all of the programming languages that I use. Other significant feature that I like about Selenium is it's parallel test execution and integration with frameworks like JUnit and TestNG. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
While Selenium serves most of the web automation purpose, it provides a limited support for non web based apps. Also, sometimes, even a tiny change in the frontend dynamic elements opens a window for test failures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Well, there is enough documentation, forums, and people to ask and search for how to implement an automation framework, once you figure it out how to build a framework with selectors and basic functions is easy to build automated tests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes it might feel a little bit slow compared to other solutions like Playwright for example but it gets the job done, another thing is the initial setup for reporting logs or testNG, but once you have that done, that's it, it is ready to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
First thing it is open source selenium down not chanrge for the usage, Qa can work on multiple languges that is accepted by the software and helps in third party integrations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
the setup and configuration of a Test Framework from the scratch takes a lot of time and Not an All-in-One Solution – Requires 3rd Party Tool Bindings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Selenium is a powerful and popular tool that is widely used for automating all types of web browsers across the industry, and its ability to simulate the user interactions with the web page makes it well suited for automating tasks such as testing web applications, scraping, data analysis and many more. Other than this it supports many programming languages which intern helps easily integrate with existing software systems. Recently selenium helps us in headless browser execution which helps in versatility and reliable scripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
some common issues we face with selenium are, the tests are flaky sometimes because of loading/sync issues and many more. And sometimes its very slow to run as if we have lot of interactions with web elements and a lot of page objects defined. And the setup part is cumbersome when compared to professional tools out there but its easy to learn and implement. Other than these its maintenance is on higher side and time consuming. Post these we have observed like we cannot automate captcha and Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is free and open source and supports web applications and all browsers. It supports 14 languages, and we can run multiple scripts in one shot. I use it to run and automate the frontend applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It doesn't support otp, captcha, animations, or subtitles, and it helps only for web applications. Sometimes it works significantly slower with low-speed internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Best thing about slenium is it is free and open source. It supports many progeamming languages and can execute multiple scripts at once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes it becomes slow and take time for execution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
whatnot, many features of selenium are awesome when compared to paid solutions out there, it solves a lot of daily web automation needs in many companies, we are using selenium in multiple projects across the organization and we have created our in-house wrapper framework around it and I can say selenium is reliable in most of the cases. Though it is open source there is a constant updates from the community and lot of new features like auto healing scripts and many more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
As it is open source if we are struck by any problem finding right solutions takes time as answers are scattered in multiple online places, community support is ok but if there was dedicated support it would be great. Sometimes slow execution and fragile as well. other problems perse features wise selenium sucks like we cannot automate captcha verification, many more like this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- can be easily configured to work with different browser drivers
- allows building page models that can be easily reused
- a quick way of getting access to different DOM elements, using different select like CSS or XPATH Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- when using page models is more common to get stale element exceptions
- executing tests in Safari driver requires adding extra behaviour as it differs compared to Firefox or Chrome driver
- would expect more build-in wait mechanism Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
First of all it is open-source project that provide single interface to write scripts in so many programming language like python, java, perl, ruby, C# etc.
Second thing, it is open-source so anyone can contribute in it from all over the world.
It is used for automation testing for high-end application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Honestly speaking there is no disadvantage it as it is open-source so anyone can contribute but I feel very less people have knowledge of how to use this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Selenium test automation framework has matured over the years and provides multiple options to do every kind of test automation - be it websites or mobile apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Though it sounds like another automation framework, it requires a good amount of coding to write automation test cases. Sometimes we need to add an additional resource to the testing team for automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
