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Selenium WebDriver Overview

What is Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium is an umbrella project encapsulating a variety of tools and libraries enabling web browser automation. Selenium specifically provides infrastructure for the W3C WebDriver specification - a platform an

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Selenium is an umbrella project encapsulating a variety of tools and libraries enabling web browser automation. Selenium specifically provides infrastructure for the W3C WebDriver specification - a platform an


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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.

Recent Selenium WebDriver Reviews

Bharat V.
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Bharat V.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Benefits of Selenium for Modern Software Testing"
I am integrating my selenium framework for our project using hybrid framework all testng, pom file and builder pattern . Supports a wide range of ...
Rakshit R.
RR
Rakshit R.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"The best platform to perform automation testing of webpages."
The code snippets are easily understandable with even minimal knowledge of java or python. Parallel testing of wesites across different browsers.
Timur S.
TS
Timur S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"I have integrated bdd framework using selenium WebDriver with Browserstack"
easy to maintain, easy to integrate support multiple programming languages and browsers

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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

It supports for multiple language and multiple browser.

Test cases executes faster compared to other tools and also it is very easy to identify and use web elements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

It supports only web based application and it doesn't support windows application.

It supports only for very limited reporting.

We cannot test apps directly using this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Selenium WebDriver solving and how is that benefiting you?

Previously i was facing issues with testing across multiple browsers, Selenium allows you to test in different browsers and also it can be easily scalable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

I have used selenium web driver integration with nightwatch.js + cucumber + selenium hub for writing five hundred plus feature tests and run those in continuous integration to achieve maximum success.

1. Running parallel test through selenium hub

2. Adding custom page objects for reusing it later

3. Supports CSS, XPath, query selector mostly all selectors

4. Support docker containers

5. Running test in headless chrome, firefox browser, etc

6. Old is gold, excellent community around the globe Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

1. Sometimes, I do need to re-run failed flaky tests through my scripts.

2. Unable to log network requests and responses like google Puppeteer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Selenium WebDriver solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have to build a workflow engine product. We render six hundred forms in a single shot; we have many complex form and form validations. We looked for a feature testing framework, end up using selenium.

1. We ran the selenium test whenever we check-in the code to avoid feature breaking.

2. We were able to completed product all features in time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Murali D.
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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Cross browser and cross platform support

Multi language support

Grid is beautiful concept Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium webdriver inbuilt reporting is not available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Selenium WebDriver solving and how is that benefiting you?

Open source availability, multi browser support , user-friendly, flexible to integrate with third party frameworks and tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Multiple integration with different programming languages like JavaScript, Java, C#. Compatible with Protractor and can Automate JavaScript applications as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Nothing to dislike in it, for the mention sake Desktop application automation is very tidious with Selenium or can say a near to impossible task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Selenium WebDriver solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am automating my Application using Selenium with Protractor using Javascript as base language, it provides vast scope of functionalities which can be automated though it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

The most helpful thing is it's an open source tool. The integration with other open source tools is also a huge plus.

Mostly it was used for web testing but nowadays common users are also using this for web scraping. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

It's still missing desktop software automation capabilities.

Some robust pdf validation tool will also be useful to become a better product.

In improving they can copy some features frm cypress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Selenium WebDriver solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's mostly been used for testing out web applications by the automation testing team.

Once the suite is developed it requires very little effort to run it again and again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Open Source, Best in the Business, More reliable, More you work, the more you can explore new features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

It is less secure because it is an open source tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Selenium WebDriver:

If you want the best Open-source testing tool, go for it without any doubt. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Selenium WebDriver solving and how is that benefiting you?

I found the best tools which can give more features related to testing my java based application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

deniz y.
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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

It is an open-source library that supports many browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari and is used to automate the testing of web applications. It is a good data scraping component when used with BS4. I am using it with Python and I am very satisfied. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

I am generally satisfied. It runs slower with Chrome than Firefox. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Selenium WebDriver solving and how is that benefiting you?

I need meaningful and qualified data for deep learning models. Selenium meets this need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nagesh R.
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Test Analyst
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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

The way it works with complex web application.

Large user base for support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium itself will not support Shadow DOM elements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Selenium WebDriver:

Makesure kind the way your application built, wheter all elements will be supported by Selenium.

For example, Shadow Elements

Check whether your application comes with multiple frames Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Selenium WebDriver solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using automation testing, with which we drastically reduced time and efforts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Santosh P.
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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

1. Open source software to automate the web applications

2. Only Core java basic knowledge is required to easily use selenium web driver

3. It is widely accepted as enterprise choice to go for as a test automation tool

4.Works Across Multiple OS

5. Cross Browser Compatibility Testing

6. Supports Multiple Frameworks and Languages

7. Cross-Device Testing

8. Community Support

9. Easy to Implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

1. User with no programming language understanding makes it difficult to learn and adapt in their software projects

2. It is not script less automation

3. As it is open source, it takes efforts to maintain it with the latest versions of web drivers which requires certain level of expertise

4. Lack of support to automate windows applications, currently used to automate only web applications

5. No UI available to capture web objects such as web buttons, text boxes , drop-dropdowns etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Selenium WebDriver solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. Automated the manual testing processes using selenium webdriver

2. Helped to reduce time and effort that the team used to spent while performing manual testing of the web applications

3.Helped to achieve very good return on investments thereby satisfying client's changing requirements and lowering budgets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vineeth V.
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What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Ease of automating web applications, different options to locate web elements, open source and having the ability to integrate with testing frameworks like TestNG Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Can only be used for automating web applications, Unable to automate desktop and mainframe applications, not having a dedicated support team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Selenium WebDriver solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helped in automating web applications without any issues. This resulted in considerable time savings in testing applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.