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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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Abiel M.
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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium is an open source tool, it is easily integrated with many other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

It has a few challenges like, it does not test pictures and videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sabu S.
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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Like we all know when we talk about automation, the first thing comes to our mind will be selenium. Perhaps there are no any powerful frameworks or tools available for automation testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

If it has a record and play feature like Jmeter then it would be easier for non coding background peoples. Don't its technicals, as may be it has technical problems to do that. It just my wish, not a drawback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avinash M.
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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

It's fast and can handle almost all the scenarios we can think of a website, I've worked for walt disney and we used this tool primarily for testing multiple disney websites. It can even work on shadow root objects and while using java with selenium, the code remains organized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

For some functionalities such as shadow root elements and javascript operations, the functions can be made more easier to write and use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sumith S.
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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

It's open source and easy to use. It's the best tool to automate web based applications. It can be used to test applications on multiple browsers and tests can be run parallely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

There is nothing much that I dislike about the Selenium. I wish there was some feature to handle captcha or it would have been great if it could read data from a PDF file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Easy access to web DOM and entities on the page. Allowing for universal control of the page made for easy integration and the ability to have a one-stop shop for the interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Some of the coding understanding to integrate with OO software to build the framework for web testing. Did not play nice with all the libraries that had to leverage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sumesh S.
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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Cross browser testing, test scripts can be developed using any of the supported programming languages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Nothing much, can test only web based applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Ease of use

Better interaction with cross browser

Multiple tools capabilities

Can be used in multiple frameworks and languages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

No Backend Support

Little slow for execution and debugging Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sumesh S.
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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Cross browser testing is A very good feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Not much, maintenance takes a lot of time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek C.
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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium driver is an open-source library, it supports multiple languages like java, javascript, c#, python etc. It has almost all the functionalities which are required for web automation like page factory for easily maintaining the web pages, waits & action for simulating the user actions etc. Selenium WebDriver 4 is W3C compliance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Only for java documentation is great and detailed but for other languages, it's not that much great and users might face problems and need to search a lot on google. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

It allows cross browser testing and working of Test scripts with access to different language for script creation which allows users to have vast to work and experience it. It supports different browsers to work and execute the test scripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

For Using Selenium Webdriver, User can has a basic object oriented concepts clear for any of the language on which they want to work for script creation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.