Selenium HQ Reviews

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

Automates more than 5000 test cases and takes around 30-36 hours by which it reduces the manual effort of one QA person in 20-25 days.

More than 2 Years

More than 2 Years.

Yes, with Internet Explorer only.

So far, No.

There are large forums available and their support staff were awesome.

Straightforward. But I would say the complexity will depend on the framework you create.

It's free!

Yes, Sahi Pro was on the list.

The tool supports most of the features you want to automate and the stability of the executions is good too. And finally, it's free!

• Automate any web page by providing URL
• One can use any programming language such as Ruby, Java, Python and few others
• Support for several types of locators
• Cross browser support

We run automated test cases after every deployment. The product helped us to implement continuous integration and worry free deployment process.

I had issues testing a flash application with Selenium Webdriver.

I've used it for five years.

There were no issues with the deployment.

There have been no issues with the stability.

There have been no issues with the scalability.

It is an open source product with a strong user base and lot of user community support.

I have briefly used QTP. There are a few reasons.It is an open-source tool and it has cross browser support. Testers can run automated test cases in different browser, and QA engineers can write test cases in his/her choice of language such as Java, Ruby, Python and a few others.

The set up is straightforward if you have a programming background.

It is an open source tool but price in terms of time it is totally worth it. It saves us lot of time and cost once implemented. The cross browser testing functionality helped us to find issues quicker in specific browsers.

The product has record and play back tool but it is always better to write your own code and implement the framework.

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 are using the solution as a trial at the moment and have not implemented it for customers.

The most valuable feature of Selenium HQ is the ability to create automatic tests that can replicate human behavior.

Selenium HQ can be complex. The interface requires a QA engineer or an expert to use it.

I have been using Selenium HQ for approximately two years.

Selenium HQ is salable.

Selenium HQ is scalable.

Selenium HQ has a great community. You can receive information from forums. If you are stuck with something you have a community that can help you.

Miro Focus was a better solution than Selenium HQ for none programmers, it is easier to use.

The initial setup of Selenium HQ was easy. However, I was not directly involved.

Selenium HQ is a free solution.

When evaluating other solutions, such as Micro Focus, their price was not reasonable for our needs.

• It's open source tool (cost effective)
• More Test Coverage through Multiple browser support(Chrome,FF,IE9,10,11,Opera,Safari and Edge(recently)
• Scalable to extend and integrate with other Automation tools like Jmeter & OWASP ZAP, thus enable team to perform Fuctional, NonFunctional test(Performance, Security)
• Can be integrated with CI tools like Jenkins
• Can be integrated with builder tools like Maven & ANT

• Can be extended to cloud environments (sauce labs)
• Multiple platform support like windows, Linux and MAC
• Can be used with different Automation frameworks like TDD,BDD and Hybrid 
• Remote script execution possible with Grid & node setup
• Less Turnaround time with Parallel Executions 
• Easy to Learn & Mastering
• Huge user community base and support
• Support for version control tools like SVN and Git
• Headless Browser support using HTMLUnit & PhantomJS drivers

It is an awesome tool to use with great ROI, we have been using this tool extensively in most of our projects to reduce the manual regression efforts and to prevent production defects. Another beauty of this tool is to extend and integrate with other functional & non functional tools(Jmeter, OWASP ZAP, Appium ..etc.)

Recently we have implemented the Extended Reporting to support rich reporting structure with Charts,Dashboards that would be easy for stakeholders to Analyze and arrive at decisions. 

Compatibility issues with newer versions of browsers (IE & Firefox) and latest server versions, but this can be addressed with some workarounds.

Handling Windows based dialogs (or) performaning Non browser action can bit challenging, so far we are using AutoIT tool to perform this.

Rather QTP or any other Commercial tools, Selenium expects more Techinical(Prograaming) expertise, but other end this feature makes selenium more flexible

We had compatibility issues with some newer versions of browsers.

We've had no issues with stability.

We've had no issues with scalability.

• Browser
• Language and environment compatible
• Opensource

We designed the Omani-channel automation framework, and achieved the maximum testing coverage includes localization (approximately 19), environment (web and mobile [iOS and Android]), and browser.

I would like to see an improvement in the iOS automation for hybrid app's and try to comparable for desktop app automation.

I've used it for six years.

There were no issues with the deployment.

I observed like batch execution issues and comparability issues like AngularJS app's etc.

There were no issues with the scalability.

8/10 - they need to improve their in-office blog.

Used other is solutions for my assignments, and more opensource ones.

It's simple to set-up.

We did it in-house.

It's open-source so it's free.

You'll be good to go with this.

It allows us to verify user flows effectively and very easily. I can use any web browser to assert user flows.

It's helped us get good coverage with functional regression tests, reducing the reduction of manual effort to sign off on every release. We can now do so in just one day to sign off a regression test as compared to 4 day before we had automated tests.

Plus, as the regression runs are invoked on every commit, the tool has also reduced the number of issues introduced by regressions and has highlighted the regression issues on every commit/push. This allows us to get very early fixes and reduces the risks associated with changes and releases.

Overall, there aren't any areas for improvement. However, there are some things you have to do make make effective use of the tool. Make sure the language you select to work with is the same as the language your applications is developed in. Also, make sure you use Selenium Grid to get the test and suites to run in parallel.

We've had no issues with deployment.

Stability has been fine for us.

It scales without issue.

It's open source, so there's no customer service.

It's customer service, so we provide our own technical support.