Selenium HQ Reviews

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.

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.

The parallel batch execution as well as reporting feature in the tests are very valuable to me.

We are using this product to do regression testing. In this way it has improved the quality of our product.

As of now I can't see anything which needs to be improved but once I am through with Selenium, will let you know.

I've been using it for one year and two months.

I have not had any issues with the deployment.

I have not had any issues with the stability.

I have not had any issues with the scalability.

It's an open source tool. So the only support is Google for us.

This product is more user friendly than others. So this is the reason for choosing this product.

The set-up was straightforward.

The most valuable features I've found are:

• Cross browser support 
• Easy to use

Selenium is now being implemented for testing in many browsers, e.g. IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Edge, etc. Also, we have implemented it in many other features in form of a framework.

I would suggest cross-browser support need to be improved, as all methods do not support when we change the browser.

A few features such as synchronization techniques, cross-browser coding, and customized reporting need to be implemented.