Selenium HQ Reviews

It supports most of the actions that a user would do on a website.

Automates more than 5000 test cases and takes around 30-36 hours by which it reduces the manual effort of one QA person in 20-25 days.

More than 2 Years

More than 2 Years.

Yes, with Internet Explorer only.

So far, No.

There are large forums available and their support staff were awesome.

Straightforward. But I would say the complexity will depend on the framework you create.

It's free!

Yes, Sahi Pro was on the list.

The tool supports most of the features you want to automate and the stability of the executions is good too. And finally, it's free!

Some valuable features are that it is easy to use and the ability to use forums for any issues that arise.

Regression testing time was greatly reduced, following implementation of Selenium automated test suites.

Sometimes, without codes or tests being altered, errors would result. This was often due to the speed at which the test was run. Therefore, I would say robustness is an area for improvement.

I have used this product for five years.

This product is easy to deploy.

I did encounter some stability issues. So, I found it was better to run automation scripts at slower speeds to get consistent results.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

I did not contact customer service.

The beauty of Selenium is that since many people use it, technical questions can be quickly answered in many available online forums.

I have not used any other solution before.

The setup was a straightforward process. It was easy to download the latest version from the website.

We implemented this product in-house.

Regression testing could be completed within hours at the end of each sprint, rather than taking days of manual testing.

This is an open source, so this product was free.

We have not evaluated any other options.

If you are testing websites, this is a great tool. It is easy to use, even without much coding knowledge. Testers do not need to be very technical to start creating useful test cases.

It's free and continuously improved e.g. support for mobile, and new browsers. Also special services allow remote cross-browser testing on desktop and mobile browser (such as BrowserStack or SauceLabs).

Also the automation of Microsoft Edge is supported, where as other tools are having issues.

Regression tests for multiple browsers are now automated robustly across all main browsers.

• Video controls of an embedded HTML5 video
• AJAX/web 2.0 dynamic web content (though there is a framework called Protractor for Angular)
• Better detection if a page has indeed finished loading

I've used it for three years.

Never

Due to its high rate in releases sometimes working code cannot be executed after an upgrade due to a new feature or different behaviour.

Service is only available through a community (LinkedIn, Stackoverflow) but since this product is widely used you can always find a solution to your problem.

It was very straightforward, just one line of code, with two dependencies and you already have a browser up and running ready to be automated.

I made the concept and implementation myself.

No license necessary, but to get the best results it requires a Java Software Developer with WebDev-background and a tester attitude. Tests can be automated fairly quickly and across the main browsers therefore you can get results in less than a week.

Don’t forget the maintenance that is required to keep the framework running, therefore I would suggest the Page-Object-Model, to separate the test logic from the test object. Also you might wanna start on Chrome, it’s better supported.

Ranorex, Sahi, TestComplete, TestWhizz, QF-Test, WatiR, Squish, CodedUI

• 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.