What is Selenium?
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should) also be automated as well.
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86 Likeliness to Recommend
97 Plan to Renew
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86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+93 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Performance Enhancing
- Includes Product Enhancements
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Selenium Reviews
Parul B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2021
Superb Automation Tool but requires Coding Skills
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Selenium from other similar products?
Selenium is an excellent Automation testing tool in todays world given the cost savings achieved by reutilization of same test suit during subsequent regression testing. Selenium is supported by several coding languages and is compactible with almost all the web browsers. It is free of cost open source tool hence can be leverage by all types of organizations.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
As it is free of cost, anyone who has taken a training of Selenium can immediately get started with the automation of test cases and contribute to organization's aim of cost optimization and effort optimization strategy.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Selenium does not have built in reporting capabilities hence visualization the dashboard with set of test cases passed and fails is not readily available. Having a reporting dashboard helps the testing team understand the overall performance and bridge the gap accordingly.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Anyone looking to adapt a leading tool for automation can go for this tool as it is free of cost, provides wide range of functionalities and liberty to build anything as long as one is proficient in coding skills. Although there is no dedicated technical support for the tool, one may reach out to open market given this is a popular tool, it should be easier to get the resolution for most of the times.
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Shweta U.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jun 2021
browser automation test with selenium open source
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Selenium from other similar products?
1. Support for multiple programming languages and various Platforms. Test scripts can be written in Java, C#, etc. 2. Scripts are written based on test cases and requirements. 3. Identifying syntax errors is easy while developing 4. Best tools used in DevOps CI/CD process 5. Supports parallelism while running test cases. 6. Supports multiple browsers. 7. Open-source. 8. Selenium has helped our organization to save lots of resource costs in terms of manpower and time. 9. Record and play features while executing test cases.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Selenium has helped our organization to save lots of resource costs in terms of manpower and time. It helps automate our workflow and removes all the mundane work. 1. Best tools used in DevOps CI/CD process 2. Supports parallelism while running test cases. 3. Supports multiple browsers. 4. Open-source. 5. Selenium has helped our organization to save lots of resource costs in terms of manpower and time. 6. Record and play features while executing test cases.
What do you dislike most about this product?
1. Execute time is slow. It takes a lot of time to finish all the test cases 2. Scripts written for Internet Explorer always need debugging to work with Firefox and Chrome in an Ubuntu/Linux environment. Though we mostly use chrome in windows to write logic, some of the web pages are IE-friendly.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The tool can be used across organizations in various roles. It's free of cost and integrates well with most of the sophisticated or opensource development, build management, CI/CD, or management tools. Selenium has outstanding community support and is continuously updated to support newer technologies. The availability of lots of plugins/add-ons makes it a tool that can talk to almost any other tool available in your organization. It might not have a dedicated Customer Support team. You can seek help from its wide-open community who are always there to support, but one needs to post their queries on relevant open forums and websites.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Chris H.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jun 2021
Selenium - the Industry Standard, but aging
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Selenium from other similar products?
It's simply the most widely-used framework for browser interaction for test automation there is
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It's so widely-used that documentation as well as community support is huge
What do you dislike most about this product?
It's getting old, and some performance issues are making it show its age
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Look at some of the newer technologies, like WebdriverIO, that are W3C standards
Pros
- Reliable
- Includes Product Enhancements
- Enables Productivity
- Helps Innovate
Cons
- Leverages Incumbent Status
