Selenium HQ Reviews

We use Selenium HQ for automation and API integration.

The most valuable features of Selenium HQ are it is open-source, has a good interface, and integrates well.

I have been using Selenium HQ for approximately four years.

Selenium has been giving us failures sometimes. It is not working one hundred percent of the time when we are creating elements. They need to improve the stability of the solution.

The solution takes a lot of time for the developers. For example, if we are trying to implement UiPath or Automation Anywhere the people who are non-technical can use these two solutions. Selenium HQ is not easy for someone that is new to use, it takes too long for developers to learn the solution. There are other solutions that do not require such a learning curve.

We have approximately 870 users using this solution.

Selenium HQ has a large online community where you can get help on any issues or problems.

The installation is straightforward.

I have evaluated other solutions.

If you have developers that can operate Selenium HQ then this solution will be a good fit. However, if your developers are new to Selenium it might be better to choose another solution.

I rate Selenium HQ an eight out of ten.

• 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.

We use it for test automation. We are also using Cypress for some of our automated tests. We've tried Selenium a little bit, but it depends on the project we are doing.

It is more stable in comparison to other solutions because they have quite some experience in the market.

I don't have that much experience with it, but I know that Selenium is more used for websites. It is not for testing desktop applications, which is a downside of it. It can support desktop applications more.

I have been using this solution for one year.

It is stable.

We have five people on the team, but not all of us are using it. We have plans to increase its usage.

It is not complex. I don't remember the time it took, but I do have development and testing experience. So, for me, it was an easy ramp-up.

I would recommend this solution to others. I would rate it a seven out of 10.

• Simple objects recognition
• It's easy to use
• Multi-language support
• Open source with good support
• A lot of information and help online

Selenium IDE needs to be improved not like just an record / play back tool, but as effective web elements spy. TestNG has more support, and also has ntegration with Appium and Jmeter which Selenium misses.

I've been using it for 10 years, since 2005.

Throughout the last five years, I have not had any difficulty to install or set-up Webdriver.

This is an open source, so some issues are always pop[ing up , but compared to other open source automation tools web driver is much much better.

It covers all regression testing with 20,000 test cases run during 24 hours and easy maintenance.

Customer support is very good for a non-commercial tool.

I used Silk Test and Win Runner previously. Borland SilkTest is an excellent tool, but it costs.

 It very straight forward and easy. Of course it’s required basic programming skills.

We have in house automation framework and it works great with continuous integration. I do not see reasons to pay for third party services.

It's a free tool.

Just use web driver and enjoy.

• It supports many programming languages like Java, and Ruby etc.
• It can be plugged with Junit, TestNG and other Java frameworks for reporting
• CI can be achieved with tools like Jenkins

Cost effective solution for automation test.

Dynamic Debugging needs to be improved. Like QTP, there should be an option to run the test from a point or state of application. Currently the test should be run from the beginning to debug or test the new scenario which has been added.

I've used it for three years.

There were no issues with the deployment.

There are stability issues, especially when Mozilla Firefox updates.

There's no scalability issues.

It wasn't very difficult.

We did it in-house.

It's free and there's no licence needed.

An engineer from any background can learn and build automation easily.

This is open-source product with large community, it allows to use your favourite language to write test framework.

Selenium is an automation tool which allows to perform automation web testing and reduce amount of manual tests.

Maybe more stable cross-browser autotesting (some times test which works ok for one browser fails in another).

I've used it for over four years.

There were no issues with the deployment.

Sometimes there are issues with automation testing in Internet Explorer.

There's no issues with the scalability.

This is open source product with large community, the main issues can be solved using this community

To use Selenium WebDriver effectively you should have good knowledge of programming language, this is one of the main complexity

Compared to commercial tools such as TestComplete, Selenium WebDriver is a better choice for web auto-testing. It allows us to write frameworks using object-oriented programming languages like Java.

To use Selenium WebDriver effectively user should have good knowledge of programming language, this is one of the main complexity. Using Selenium you have to write test framework using your favourite language and some additional tools should be used also (like Jenkins for CI and reports), this is the first step which should be done.

I can easily integrate with TestNG and Maven. Also I am able to set servers and hubs to execute my test case against

I can run a set of regression test cases with every release to QA.

I would like to be able to capture HTML header information but I have not been able to do that yet

I've used it for three years.

There were no issues during deployment.

Currently WebDriver is having issues running against the latest of Firefox.

There have been no issues scaling it out.

There is none yet there is a lot sites where questions can answered.

I used Capybara. I am more familiar with Java

It was pretty straightforward. It needs some degree of programming knowledge.

We did it in-house.

It's free.

Go for it. This is one of the best open source solutions I know of.

It is compatible with and supports multiple languages, such as Java and Python. It is open source, and it is widely used.

It is not a licensed tool. The problem with that is that it won't be able to support Windows desktop applications. There is no support for Windows desktop applications. They can do something about it.

Its user interface can also be improved, which is not great compared to the other latest tools.

Anybody who has been working on functional testing or manual testing cannot directly work on Selenium HQ without learning programming skills, which is a disadvantage.

I have been using Selenium HQ for three years.

It has good stability.

Scalability is good. They are improving on that.

I haven't directly interacted with anyone. For most of the questions that I have, I search online, and I am able to find the answers in the community.

It is complex, but they have detailed documentation, which is helpful.

You need a person who knows one programming language thoroughly. It is not like anybody can pick and work on this solution. You should be thorough enough on the language and the framework that you are choosing. Only then Selenium HQ is the way to go.

I would rate Selenium HQ a seven out of ten.