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.

What differentiates Selenium from other similar products?

1. Support for multiple programming languages and various Platforms. Test scripts can be written in Java, C#, etc. 2. Scripts are written based on test cases and requirements. 3. Identifying syntax errors is easy while developing 4. Best tools used in DevOps CI/CD process 5. Supports parallelism while running test cases. 6. Supports multiple browsers. 7. Open-source. 8. Selenium has helped our organization to save lots of resource costs in terms of manpower and time. 9. Record and play features while executing test cases.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Selenium has helped our organization to save lots of resource costs in terms of manpower and time. It helps automate our workflow and removes all the mundane work. 1. Best tools used in DevOps CI/CD process 2. Supports parallelism while running test cases. 3. Supports multiple browsers. 4. Open-source. 5. Selenium has helped our organization to save lots of resource costs in terms of manpower and time. 6. Record and play features while executing test cases.

What do you dislike most about this product?

1. Execute time is slow. It takes a lot of time to finish all the test cases 2. Scripts written for Internet Explorer always need debugging to work with Firefox and Chrome in an Ubuntu/Linux environment. Though we mostly use chrome in windows to write logic, some of the web pages are IE-friendly.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The tool can be used across organizations in various roles. It's free of cost and integrates well with most of the sophisticated or opensource development, build management, CI/CD, or management tools. Selenium has outstanding community support and is continuously updated to support newer technologies. The availability of lots of plugins/add-ons makes it a tool that can talk to almost any other tool available in your organization. It might not have a dedicated Customer Support team. You can seek help from its wide-open community who are always there to support, but one needs to post their queries on relevant open forums and websites.