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Selenium HQ pros and cons

Vendor: SeleniumHQ

4.0 out of 5

113 reviews
89% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Selenium HQ is an open-source tool supporting Java, Python, and .NET, valued for web testing in complex projects. It integrates with various tools, allowing customization, while Selenium Grid enables parallel execution to reduce time. Despite its robust community and extensive resources, setup is complex, handling dynamic elements is challenging, and issues with Internet Explorer persist. Limitations include non-web app integration and a lack of built-in reporting, requiring external frameworks.

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PROS

Selenium HQ supports multiple programming languages and integrates with various frameworks and tools.

The community support for Selenium HQ is comprehensive and easily accessible.

Selenium HQ is open-source, offering flexibility and customization without licensing restrictions.

Selenium HQ efficiently automates UI tests, reducing the time and effort of manual testing.

Selenium HQ is stable and widely used in the industry, making it a reliable choice for web testing.

CONS

Selenium HQ setup is complex and requires programming skills, making it less accessible for non-technical users.

Integration and support for Windows desktop applications is lacking, leading to reliance on third-party tools.

Selenium HQ does not have a robust test management or reporting framework, necessitating external solutions for advanced reporting and test management.

Locator management is challenging, with difficulties in adapting to changing elements, making test maintenance burdensome.

There are stability and compatibility issues, particularly with Internet Explorer, and coordination with multiple browsers can be problematic.

Selenium HQ Pros review quotes

Selenium Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees

Aug 24, 2017

All the features in Selenium to automate the UI.

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Saurabh Chauhan

Project Engineer at Mathworks India Pvt Ltd

Aug 25, 2017

Selenium web driver - Java.

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Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 24, 2017

Language support - since it supports Java and other programming languages it is easy to integrate with other systems.

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Senior Automation Test Developer/Automation Test Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Nov 9, 2017

It supports most of the mainstream browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, IE and etc.

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Technical Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Jun 29, 2017

It supports most of the actions that a user would do on a website.

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QA Expert at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 12, 2017

Selenium WebDriver and Selenium IDE are useful.

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QA Test Lead at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Aug 10, 2017

The ability to present your tests on a wiki page and hooking them up to the scripts/fixtures.

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Engenheiro de automação de teste at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Mar 8, 2018

Selenium has helped to complete tests in less time, which would not be possible relying on manual testing only.

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SG

Principal Consultant at Digital Web Advisors Pvt Ltd

May 11, 2018

Our platform runs into several thousand screens and a few thousand test cases, something which would typically take months to test manually. As of today, the entire process takes a little over two days to run.

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JJ

Quality Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 20, 2018

The primary benefit is its cost and the ability to use the cloud.

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Selenium Automation Engineer at a individual & family service with 10,001+ employees

Aug 24, 2017

Selenium Grid set-up is bit complex.

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Saurabh Chauhan

Project Engineer at Mathworks India Pvt Ltd

Aug 25, 2017

Handling frames and windows needs to be improved.

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Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 24, 2017

There is no good tool to find the Xpath. They should provide a good tool to find Xpath for dynamic elements and integrate API (REST/ SOAP) testing support.

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Senior Automation Test Developer/Automation Test Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Nov 9, 2017

It is not easy to make IE plus Selenium work good as other browsers. Firefox and Chrome are the best ones to work with Selenium.

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AE

Technical Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Jun 29, 2017

There are stability issues with Internet Explorer only.

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QA Expert at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 12, 2017

Selenium has room for improvement as it does not support the tests and result-sharing in anything but a manual way.

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QA Test Lead at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Aug 10, 2017

Selenium could offer better ways to record and create scripts. IDE is available, however, it can be improved.

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Engenheiro de automação de teste at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Mar 8, 2018

It would be very great if Selenium would provide some framework examples so newcomers could get started more quickly.

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SG

Principal Consultant at Digital Web Advisors Pvt Ltd

May 11, 2018

In the beginning, we had issues with several test cases failing during regression. Over a period of time, we built our own framework around Selenium which helped us overcome of these issues.

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JJ

Quality Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 20, 2018

It does require a programming skill set. I would like the product not to require a heavy programming skill set and be more user-friendly for someone without a programming background.

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