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Selenium WebDriver Pros and Cons: Top 5 Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users value the wide language support in Selenium WebDriver, enhancing flexibility across diverse development teams. (5 mentions)
Users value the efficiency of automation with Selenium WebDriver, significantly reducing manual effort and errors. (4 mentions)
Users value the browser compatibility of Selenium WebDriver, enabling seamless testing across various web browsers effortlessly. (4 mentions)
Users find Selenium WebDriver to be easy to understand, even for those with minimal programming knowledge. (3 mentions)
Users find Selenium WebDriver easy to use, enabling efficient automation and reducing manual effort significantly. (3 mentions)
Users face challenges due to the lack of automation for mobile apps, leading to reliance on other tools. (4 mentions)
Users often experience compatibility issues with browser versions, affecting the stability and success of their automation tests. (3 mentions)
Users face integration issues with Selenium WebDriver, requiring additional tools and causing compatibility problems with browser versions. (3 mentions)
Users find UI testing challenging with Selenium WebDriver, especially without the robot framework, increasing initial setup time. (1 mentions)
Users find UI testing difficult with Selenium WebDriver, especially without the robot framework and initial setup time. (1 mentions)

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Selenium WebDriver Pros and Cons

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ADITYA R.
AR
Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Irreplaceable Option for Web application automation."
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Best thing is no one can replace selenium and webdriver in market of web application automation because it is open source most of small company to big organisation prefer selenium and web driver for its web application automation testing, regression testing. And features are unbeatable in market Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium and web driver comes with many features. But the complex part is setting up testing environment using selenium and web driver there are many dependency we need to manage and handle.Not special customer support is offer by selenium.Easy to use . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bhavarth K.
BK
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best tool for Web UI automation"
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

- Open source

- Compatibility across different Os (Windows, Linux, Mac)

- Supports multiple languages (Python, Java, C# etc)

- Good range of community support

- Provides cross browser testing

- Easy to implement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

- Sometimes same UI action method does not work for all different browsers

- Execution feels to be little slower compare to other tools like Cypress, Playwright etc

- It does not provide in built capability of unit test framework and reporting with much greater details

- It is not automation solution for all types of app like Desktop app, Mobile app etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Charan T.
CT
Senior Software Test Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best ever to use"
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

1. It's very user friendly

2. Very understandable and can be implemented easily

3. Very flexible for any language Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

1. Selenium customer support is not as expected Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amilda M.
AM
Senior Quality Analyst
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best web automation tool!"
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium web driver is an open-source web automation tool that supports multiple browsers, languages and platforms. It is straightforward to use and has the ability to interact with web elements and perform testing smoothly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

It performs slowly when the internet connection is slow and fails most tests. It can not automate captcha and animations on the web page. It needs prior programming knowledge to create test scripts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ronak S.
RS
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Flawless test automation with Selenium Webdriver"
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

- Supports test automation for different kind of web applications, i.e NodeJS, Angular, MVC

- Supports variety of programming languages. i.e Python, C#, Java

- One can automate test cases in different OS (Windows, Mac, Linux) and Browsers (Chrome, Edge, Safari etc.)

- Supports complex browser operations like Scrolling, Navigating between windows

- This tool has a huge community support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

- It does not provide any reporting capabilities

- One has to acquire detailed programming knowledge to start with this tool

- No customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JS
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Automate QA task simply with this amazing tool"
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

-Selenium drivers are supported with almost all major programming language

-Allows literally everything with a webpage in an automated way

-Life saver tool for all QAs out there

-Works very well with all browsers which is very helpful when testing the multi-browser compatibility of the app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

-I do not have anything to dislike but just one thing to say is that sometimes when using selenium drivers with Brave it may trigger a captcha. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pranay Kumar P.
PP
Quality Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"The open source solution to your WebApps Testing"
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium is an open-source tool that can open up the world of testing using inner classes. Because it is open source, you may create your tests at the framework level. Selenium has a vast community that will help you solve your difficulties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium struggles to generate test reports. It lacks functionality like gestures, scrolling, and identifying a specific element in the DOM. Third-party libraries are being utilized to address these issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Web application automation"
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

1)Open source tool is best feature of of selenium

2)Integration with other tools like TestNG,Team city is very easy.

3)Support to Java and various other programming language gives

4)WebDriver enables easy to build keyword driven framework

5)It supports iPhone and Android operating system.

6)Also includes implementation of listeners.

7)Ajax testing improved features

8)Easy to stimulate by a click of the front and the back buttons of the browser.

9)Extraction of objects in bulk like QTP is possible.

10)Starting up a server in WebDriver is not required.

11)One can create movement of a mouse using selenium.

12)Tabs and Pos in WebDriver and RC are the same which both can handle.

13)Coordinates of any object can be found using WebDriver.

14)Simulation of key press events of keyboard is possible by referring the classes in WebDriver. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

1)Support to windows application and to support windows pop we will have to use other tools like AutoIT

2)Handling captcha.

3)Handling dynamic elements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matias Nicolas A.
MA
Senior Software Engineer in Test
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Lead UI Driver"
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Is one of the most used tools, so that means on most of the edge cases topic you will find someone else contributing to it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

No concerns at the moment. It has been improved across the new versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Obeng B.
OB
Software Tester
Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Selenium Webdriver review"
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

I love that Selenium can be used to do both mobile and web testing. In combination with Appium Selenium can be used to automate Mobile apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium is a very big framework and its usually difficult for new programmers to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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