Selenium HQ Reviews

• 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.

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.

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.

• Automate test across several browsers such as IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari
• Write automation scripts in any language of your choice Java, C#, PHP, Python and many more
• Ability to execute tests in parallel which provide time saving for testing
• Ability to take screenshots of every tests
• An open API that can be extended based on our needs
• A Recorder Tool to record tests and execute them for non-developers

We provide IT services and solutions, and this solution helped our clients reduce their manual testing efforts to greater level. Our clients have realized benefits by reducing their testing cycle from three days to three hours through Selenium.

They can improve test reporting, and more importantly on test scripts, by providing less constructs to automate more complex testing scenarios.

I've used it for the past nine years. We use it alongside Appium.

Deployment is little tricky but with good help from external vendors organizations, can implement a Selenium based test automation solution in a short period of time.

There have been no issues with the stability.

There have been no issues with the scalability.

There is great on-line support from the users community. External vendors have innovative solutions build using these tools where they provide tremendous support.

It was difficult to some extent, but with good documentation from the on-line community we where able to implement the tool.

We did it in-house. If you are implementing it for enterprise level its better to seek external vendor help.

We have seen ROI of more than 60%. It's open source.

I would say start lean, gain small wins and incrementally add more. Example: Start automating test cases for one browser and slow expand to multiple browsers.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.