Selenium HQ Reviews

We use it to make our UI functional tests, layout test, and any tests related to the browsers.

1. We have automation tests (API, UI, unit, integration tests, and etc.). It saves on our manual QA time.
2. It reduces our manual QA repeatable works.
3. It saves our manual QA's energy.
4. The QA time move from manual QA to automation QA, and improve the relationship between developer and QA, Since automation tests make them work closer.
5. QA becomes more technical and love to know more about technical and architecture of the code such as they have to use GitHub, CI system, servers, and etc.
6. QA know more about tests such as unit tests, integration tests, and Selenium UI tests.
7. Make QA life much fun/easier.
8. Deduce the developers work such as automation QA/developer develops the test library and test framework, both developer and QA, some times, PM also can develop their own tests by using the test library and test framework.

1. Selenium is a good tool to do UI testing
2. It works with many popular programming languages such as Java, JavaScript and etc.
3. It supports most of the mainstream browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, IE and etc.
4. It supports mobile local application as well and work with Appium.
5. It is free.
6. Selenium grid is a wonderful tool.
7. BrowserStack and Sauce Labs work with Selenium.
8. Headless browser, such as Xvfb and PhantomJS, can work with Selenium as well.
9. Selenium works with CI system such as TeamCity, Jenkins, and CircleCI.
10. Selenium can work with most programming languages. I use Java more as I am really comfortable using it.
11. I do not use Selenium IDE, but it can help the beginner to learn how to find the elements by XPath, CSS selector, and etc.
12. New geckodriver in new version of Selenium.
13. It is able to work with Galen test framework to do layout test.

1. Stability.
2. Documentation, the Java doc description for most of the API is almost empty. No example with no detail.
3. 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.
4. Java gets a lot of supports. Python as well. However, it seems not PHP. It is amazing, and Selenium can work with a lot of programming languages.
5. Firefox IDE tool needs to be improved.

Some times with timeout issues.

When your tests number increases, driver manager and Selenium Grid performance become important.

There are a lot of test frameworks that support Selenium.

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!

The whole code is available on the internet. This gives potential users the ability to modify the code as per their use case. It automates the entire manual testing process reducing testing time drastically. For instance, during my internship, we automated the entire Sanity and Regression testing suite and bought down the total testing time from one hour to five minutes.

Selenium has two uses in my company. Firstly, our QA team uses Selenium to automate their tests. Secondly, our product BrowserStack Automate is based over Selenium and lets you run any Selenium script on different browser and OS combinations.

Primarily there are improvements I can suggest:

• Its does not support AJAX requests
• It is not optimized for testing on mobile devices

I have been working as a Selenium Specialist at BrowserStack for the past 20 months. I answer any Selenium related emails that our customers send us. Previously, I had used Selenium during my Internship at TCS.

Deployment is not applicable to Selenium.

Selenium is pretty stable, if not 100%.

Scalability is certainly possible. Selenium server can handle multiple tests running in parallel.

Working as Selenium tech support for BrowserStack, I wouldn’t be able to rate myself. However, the software being open source, the help on the internet is immense.

I haven't had to use any other products.

You need a basic understanding of the any particular language such as Java, C#, PHP to get started with Selenium. If yes, getting started with Selenium is pretty easy. Takes less than an half an hour to get started.

I have tried it myself. As I mentioned, a lot of resources are available on the internet regarding different approaches to use Selenium.

It’s open source and free.

There's nothing much to complain about Selenium, barring a few shortcomings. The Selenium IDE plugin – http://www.seleniumhq.org/projects/ide/, records your clicks and you can export this recorded test case to code in Java, C# etc. Though the converted code is not entirely stable, it certainly makes life easy when it comes to writing test cases.

It's open source, free, stable, and easy to use. It's the best solution on the market.

It's provided shorter testing cycles, and saves a lot of time and mental health for manual testers. It helps with performing scheduled builds, and automatically generated test reports, etc.

I'd like to be able to perform stability for tests on Internet Explorer.

We've used it for over one and a half years. We're running web test automation using Java language, and the Selenium library with the latest web drivers, alongside TestNG for managing test flow. We have Gradle for building and dependency management and Jenkins as CI tool. Tests are built and run on virtual machines (no remote driver).

The stability is a concern. Internet Explorer tests take three times longer to run and are a lot less stable than those run on Chrome, for example.

I haven't contacted them.

I haven't contacted them.

It took some time. I had to create, wrap and decorate a lot of its functionality.

It was done in-house.

We tried HP UFT, but did did not like the speed, and IDE. Also, there was no choice of programming language, it's not free, and a lot harder to maintain.

The library is nicely done. The webdriver communication with the browser is not perfect, though, especially IE. The longer the test is the higher the chance it will break down. It's impossible to reach 100% stability with more complicated tests. Very likely that the problem lies within Internet Explorer, not within the webdriver.

Very good for testers with programming experience and web developers, not so much for regular testers, unless they are given a “ready” framework and shown how to write tests.

• Supports many scripting languages (Java, .NET, Php etc)
• Great functional testing tool with short learning curve, and this makes it easy for someone coming from programming background
• Supports multiple web browsers/OS
• Distributed (remote) testing

Selenium is not just a one tool. It has a collection of tools.Selenium IDE can be used for creating the smoke tests quickly. Then export the test cases to your favorite programming language and run against different browsers. Once test cases are exported to the programming language the power of target language can be used to improve the tests further (e.g reporting , db connection etc)

Integrating test reporting with WebDriver directly

Support for major browsers directly.

If you don’t have a budget, go with Selenium because it has a huge community and the versions are constantly updated. Also, it supports latest browers most of the time, and major competitors are using it. It’s reliable and extendable. When it comes to performance testing, you can use the same code for both Selenium and JMeter.

I have used Selenium in many test automation projects from web report applications to internet banking.

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

Compatibility with all major browsers; it has become the industry standard.

It is programming language agnostic, you can write tests in most currently used languages.

• To simplify the development process, everyone needs to do a Selenium Framework to acquire the web application functions and features from Selenium methods.
• It would be very great if Selenium would provide some framework examples so newcomers could get started more quickly.

They are working on a new product which gives you an opportunity to test your product with different browsers at the same time.

They pay version is expensive, and I found it difficulot to implement.

I used the free trial for 14 days.

There were no issues with the deployment.

There were no issues with the stability.

There were no issues with the scalability.

10/10

7/10

At the beginning, it was difficult to implement then it works.

The free option is very limited, but the pay version is expensive.

The most important features of Selenium, in my opinion, are:

• Multiple finding options (by Xpath, CSS class, ID, etc.
• It is a multi-platform, so it can be used in different languages

It allowed us to be assured that basic functionality works fine and to be informed about bugs quickly.

I would like to see a better method handling. I mean methods/properties like Displayed, which should return false when there is no such element on the page instead NoSuchElementException, which has to be handled in my code – it should be provided with Selenium.

We've had no issues with deployment.

It's been stable so far.

We've scaled sufficiently with it.

Please remember it is just a tool and not everything can be automized.