What is Selenium?
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should) also be automated as well.
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86 Likeliness to Recommend
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97 Plan to Renew
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85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+92 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Respectful
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Selenium Reviews
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Government
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2024
Gets the job done
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Rushan K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2023
Robust and Reliable, gets the job done.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Selenium from other similar products?
The ease of use and the efficiency of the product along with the reliability and robustness of the application sets selenium in a class apart from it's competitors. Web automation for me has become synonymous with Selenium. The web driver provides a solid API to work with and automate the browser.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The selenium web driver is one of my favorite features of Selenium. It provides a really good API to programmatically control the browser. The docs are good and readable plus there's also tons of community support available for it, since Selenium Web driver is the popular choice for programmatically controlling the browser.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The fact that it is a little memory extensive, and is costly to run on the server for automating tasks. It's hard to use in production, for that purpose we look into using an API.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The product is really nice and works quite robustly, I would like to suggest someone considering this product to read the docs and don't be hesitant to contact the community surrounding selenium since it's really popular.
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- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Rahul K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Dec 2023
First choice for Automation Testing
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What differentiates Selenium from other similar products?
Selenium is a widely used open-source tool for automating web browsers, and it stands out in the test automation landscape for several reasons: Open Source: Selenium is an open-source tool, which means it is freely available for users to download, use, and modify. This fosters a large and active community of contributors and users. Cross-Browser Compatibility:
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Extensibility and Integration: Selenium can be extended through the use of plugins and integrations with other tools and frameworks. It integrates well with popular testing frameworks, build tools, and continuous integration systems. Support for Multiple Testing Types: Selenium is not limited to functional testing but can also be used for performance testing, load testing, and regression testing. It supports both functional and non-functional aspects of testing. Large Community and Resources:
What do you dislike most about this product?
Its not dislike , its more like improvement areas :- Community-Driven Tools: The Selenium suite includes not only Selenium WebDriver for browser automation but also Selenium Grid for parallel testing and Selenium IDE for record and playback. This suite of tools addresses different aspects of the testing process.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Better Support for Shadow DOM: Improved support for handling elements within Shadow DOM. Integration with CI/CD Tools: More seamless integration with popular CI/CD tools for better automation pipeline support. Enhanced Security Features: Features that assist in security testing of web applications. Smart Test Data Management: Improved ways of managing and providing test data for test scripts. Desktop Application Testing: Extended support for automating desktop applications, not just web browsers. Improved Documentation: Comprehensive and up-to-date documentation with more examples.
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- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
