Selenium

What differentiates Selenium from other similar products?

Selenium is probably the best automation tool in the market which is open source and free to use. Selenium IDE and Web Driver both are very easy to understand and simple to use. Majorly best used to automated web applications and supports almost all browsers, also can be worked on any operating systems. Frameworks are hard to create but can be customized based on our requirement which makes further tasks easy to automate. Any coding language can be used like java, ruby, python etc. which makes it stands apart from other automation tools in the market.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Selenium helps to automate manual test cases which saves lot of time and manual efforts due to which productivity is increased, money is saved as less resources required in comparison to manual work. It can be integrated easily with customer automation frameworks like TestNG which generates test reports very quickly. It helps in automating the web based applications and to prepare and run regression suites whenever required, Lastly, Selenium has changed carriers and given a chance to all manual testers to aspire and learn automation very easily which has helped industry to bring in any project and deliver it in very less time.

What do you dislike most about this product?

User has to know programming basics at least knowledge on core java, else it is very difficult to automate / write code for complex test cases. Lack of support to windows based applications, widely used only for web based applications. Technically speaking it is very difficult to handle dynamic elements and some times very tricky.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you are good in coding and aspire to learn automation, selenium is the best to go with. It is open source, free to use and has very good community support. Manual work should be replaced with automation work and I would recommend to all manual testers to start automation carrier by using selenium.

What differentiates Selenium from other similar products?

Selenium stands out with compared to other other tools is that it is open source and free to use. Also, another point in its favor is, its interface which is pretty simple to understand. Selenium can be easily worked out by manual testers which are the main target to switch your skills and be in automation testing rather to be in Manual testing. Code can be written in any languages like java, dotnet, ruby, python etc. Supports multiple browsers and can be used on any operating system.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Selenium can be useful in many ways in order to automate test cases and save lot of time and efforts. Repetitive test cases can be automated easily and run through in no time. Features and benefits of using selenium like: - It is very easy to install and understand. - Being open source, it has the best community support - Only core java basic knowledge is required to start with selenium - It can be used on multiple frameworks and languages - It has inbuild methods which helps in coding for beginners

What do you dislike most about this product?

Without any programming language one can not easily use selenium tool which is the main basic problem for manual testers and even who doesn't have any coding interest. It is not script less automation tool. Doesn't support for desktop applications and is more inclined towards web based applications.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is an open source tool and can be easily used for training whoever wants to learn, mainly good for manual testers to upskill and switch to automation testing which has wider exposure now in the current market. Can start automation journey by automating test cases for web based applications once you are familiar with coding then it would be very easy to switch to any other language. I highly recommend to use for betterment of your carrier.

What differentiates Selenium from other similar products?

Selenium is an excellent Automation testing tool in todays world given the cost savings achieved by reutilization of same test suit during subsequent regression testing. Selenium is supported by several coding languages and is compactible with almost all the web browsers. It is free of cost open source tool hence can be leverage by all types of organizations.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

As it is free of cost, anyone who has taken a training of Selenium can immediately get started with the automation of test cases and contribute to organization's aim of cost optimization and effort optimization strategy.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Selenium does not have built in reporting capabilities hence visualization the dashboard with set of test cases passed and fails is not readily available. Having a reporting dashboard helps the testing team understand the overall performance and bridge the gap accordingly.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Anyone looking to adapt a leading tool for automation can go for this tool as it is free of cost, provides wide range of functionalities and liberty to build anything as long as one is proficient in coding skills. Although there is no dedicated technical support for the tool, one may reach out to open market given this is a popular tool, it should be easier to get the resolution for most of the times.