Selenium HQ Reviews

Our primary use case is for testing projects. We are a small startup company and each project has been assigned to test the web applications, elements, and identify the locators.

The most valuable features are the ability to test and debug.

The Appium screenshot is attached with a tool. If we could get a screenshot as soon as the test script is over that would let us know if the test has passed or failed that would be an improvement. I would like to see automatic logs generated. If it captures the log from the time we started the S-case until the driver is good. Whatever we are doing as manual intervention, should be avoided.

I have been using Selenium HQ for the past four months now.

The stability is excellent.

Selenium HQ is scalable, with more than one hundred developers and engineers using the product. They are test automation engineers.

I was using Appium previously.

The initial setup was straightforward and easy. The deployment time takes around two to three hours.

The setup cost is open source or free.

I would rate Selenium HQ an eight out of ten. Selenium HQ is good for a web testing application.

The primary use case for us is IntelliJ and IDEA.

The most valuable feature I have found is the bomb file and it is easy in its coding. It has a lot of capabilities and is compatible with many languages.

I would like to see a library of bomb files with an automated process and integration with Jenkins and Slack.

I have been using Selenium HQ for three years.

Selenium HQ is a stable solution.

Selenium HQ is definitely scalable.

Technical support consists of excellent documentation online.

Positive

The initial setup of Selenium HQ is straightforward.

Currently, Selenium HQ is free for customers.

I would rate Selenium HQ an eight out of ten.

I mainly use Selenium HQ for web application automation.

Selenium HQ's most valuable feature is its online community support, which is comprehensive and easy to access. 

Selenium HQ doesn't have any self-healing capabilities. It would also be improved with the ability to input multiple identifiers and quickly search the content. In the future, Selenium HQ should include machine learning features.

I've been using Selenium HQ for seven to eight years.

I haven't found many issues related to stability - so far, Selenium HQ has worked wonders for me.

In terms of scalability, I'm not particularly happy with the grid stuff, but it is scalable.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward, so long as you have the correct plugin. I would rate the setup experience 4.5 out of 5.

Selenium HQ costs around $1000 per month, which is a bit high based on what they're offering.

I would recommend anyone thinking of implementing Selenium HQ to go for it - it fits into every format, depending on your time and skillset. I would rate Selenium HQ nine out of ten.

We took Selenium for web product test automation and as it very well suits as it has capacity to execute in different browser, different environment. Also it has lot other capacities to scale up test automation and yield better ROI.

Web-based application automation are mostly done using Selenium. It's the right automation tool as a replacement for manual regression testing that indispensably reduces the testing time due to its cross-browser, parallel, and remote executions.

- Most importantly, it is an open source tool.

- Parallel executions (same browser in parallel, different browser in parallel).

- Remote executions using Node and Hub.

- Integration with CI tools like Jenkins

- Multi-platform support (for details have a look at http://www.seleniumhq.org/about/platforms.jsp).

- Cross-browser Support (Chrome, Firefox, different versions of IE, Safari, Opera).

- Supported environments are Windows, Linux & Mac.

- Supports different scripting languages (JAVA, C#, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Objective C, Javascript).

- Huge user community.

It has extensive support for Chrome and Firefox, but more is needed for IE, Edge and Safari.

To some extent it is unstable while executing against different versions of IE browser, but that could be overcome through some work-around and framework design. Edge browser executions are not stable as IE browsers.

Obviously, we have better support from various users as it is an open source tool. We have a huge number of customers in the open community at different levels to provide support.

Basically, to start with setup is straightforward and easier. If you use the remote web-driver, it is slightly complex to make the setup.

Our in-house team is used for the entire implementation of the framework. Being open-source, lot of valuable additions are made in a free-flow while developing the framework.

It's an open source tool.

When using Selenium WebDriver you will find that most valuable feature is integration with other technologies and frameworks.

Selenium can test almost any kind of web application and it supports many types of technologies. You can write scripts in various programming languages (Java, C#, Ruby, Python...).

Another important feature is scalable remote execution platform, you can execute your tests in parallel on great number of different machines using Selenium grid.

If used in right way (you can build your own test automation framework) it provides great test automation coverage and boosts time spent on writing automated test scripts. It can cope with almost any commercial tool in test automation area.

It would be nice to see more frequent releases and more bug fixes. Selenium has good support, but sometimes it seems that they mark some issues to easily with "won't fix" label.

Internet Explorer webdriver has some issues and should have better support.

I've been using it for one and half year, and intensely for the last eight months.

I encountered some smaller stability issues, but most of the time it can be solved quickly. There are also some minor issues with parallel test executions but there are workarounds for this specific cases so it can be avoided.

Support is pretty good, I would rate it 7/10.

I used a few commercial solutions in my career and Selenium offered me (almost) everything that this products did, in some cases even more. I chose it because it's open source, easy to integrate with other technologies/tools and offers everything that automation testing team needs.

Initial setup is complex just as any other development project setup is. Selenium has no installation files, it's just a bunch of libs which you need to import in your favorite IDE and set it up. It really depends on your experience, but no, it's not that complex.

It's an open source product, (probably) the most popular one in a whole software test automation industry. Although it's free and open source it has good support and great integration with different technologies.

If you have a good QA team with engineers which have strong technical background and experience in software development I would definitely recommend you Selenium WebDriver. It offers everything you need, you can make your own framework and architecture, based on your business and technical needs.

If you have non-technical QA team and you want test automation - Selenium WebDriver is not the right solution, you should invest in some commercial products which are easier to use and don't demand that level of technical skills from your team.

We use it when you have a large number of scenarios to be tested manually, you would go for a web-based automation solution.

It is a good automation tool.

I would like to see Selenium HQ support legacy platforms.

I have been using Selenium HQ for the past five years.

I find Selenium HQ to be a stable product.

Selenium HQ is scalable for our needs.

Selenium HQ is not complex to work with.

We deployed in-house and it took between two to three weeks to complete.

The licensing pricing depends on the customer's needs.

It is a straightforward application to learn. If you know Java, it is something that can be easily learned and used. It has a lot of support out there. But again, it might not support some of the older back-end platforms. I would rate Selenium HQ an eight out of ten.

I'm the company's managing director and we are customers of Selenium. 

 It enables us to handle some of the custom controls of Ajax calls to Selenium and Selenium Grid for parallel execution on different versions of the application and on different platform.

The Selenium stop control has been a challenge. We use auto IT for handling some of the small controls, small scenarios on the desktop, it needs to be improved with a configuration tool where it can handle desktop support as well as Ajax controls. Basically, there needs to be an improvement in handling the Ajax custom controls because the inbuilt method is not very helpful in that respect.

I've been using this solution for almost five years. 

This is a stable and reliable solution for web applications, there is no doubt since it's an open-source tool, it's recommended for any web application. We used GitHub and Jenkins for continuous integration and everything is available online, we have experience working with the Jenkins version controls and configuration tools.

We use Google or blogs for any problems. There are sometimes delays and if we are moving into a new Chrome version or a new Firefox version, there can be delays of up to a couple of days to figure out the plugins and there's no immediate support available. We need to wait till something turns up on the internet. 

We've been using Selenium for a long time and haven't had many issues; we knew how to configure it. It's not completely straightforward and implementation takes time but everything was available on the internet and the blogs. There's a lot of documentation available regarding deployment. 

We're using the open source version. We don't have any support from Selenium HQ.

I would recommend this solution. If working on multiple browsers and on multiple platforms is the goal, then Selenium is definitely the right tool because it works on Windows as well as on Linux. It also supports multiple browsers. 

I rate the solution eight out of 10. 

We are using selenium in our organization for Unit Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing and Regression Testing.

Reduces Manpower, Testing is become much faster which is helpful for faster Project delivery. 

Selenium supports a range of languages, including Java, Perl, Python, C#, Ruby, Groovy, JavaScript, and more. It has its own script, but it is not limited by that language. It can work with various languages – whatever the developers/testers are comfortable with.

Selenium provides support across multiple browsers, namely, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari. This becomes highly resourceful while executing tests and testing it across various browsers simultaneously.

I have been using this solution for approximately two years.

The stability of the solution has been good, it is reliable we have not had any bugs till now.

I have not connected their technical support. However, there is a lot of community support for Selenium HQ online. If you look on internet you can find plenty of solutions for challenges you are facing.

The initial setup is little complicated the installation could be simplified.

I would recommend this solution to others.