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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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Vineeth V.
VV
Assistant Consultant
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Selenium Webdriver Review"
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.

Akhilesh R.
AR
Test Automation Specialist
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best Open Source automation tool with great community support"
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

I like that selenium webdriver supports multiple browser automation with multiple languages.

Community support is great and usually if an challenges faced it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

I feel reporting for selenium can be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FB
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"It has been very helpful to me when detecting failures and logic errors"
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Its main point in its favor, its interface, has a fairly simple and intuitive design to use, which allows to carry out a large number of tasks and activities in a much more practical and simple way, the fact that it allows me to perform tests at My websites created in a fairly simple and complete way is perfect for me to check and verify that everything is working correctly and that there are no future problems when it comes to showing the total operation of the application, the fact that it works in several browsers It is perfect, since I can carry out the case studies in different browsers and not focus only on one, its initial configuration is quite simple to carry out, which allows its use without any problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

It is oriented exclusively to web applications, so it is not possible to test our desktop or mobile developments, something that at least for us is a high priority, however we liked the way it works perfectly in web development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SR
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"The best automation testing tool"
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium WebDriver is free, open source and probably the best automation tool in the market. It can be written in different languages like java, dot net, ruby, python etc. It can be executed on any Operating system and supports almost all major browsers. Its community forums and user base is huge. We can create our own frameworks based on our needs. It can be easily integrated with custom automation frameworks like TestNG to generate test reports quickly and easily. Scripts are reusable and hence it is best used for functional testing or regression testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

It doesn't support desktop applications and is limited to web applications. It cant be used for load testing or performance testing. Since it is a open source and free software, no technical support is available. It doesn't handle unexpected popups very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhresh S.
AS
Freelance Corporate Trainer - Online Platform
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"My Favourite Automation Testing Tool"
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Everything right from easy of automation to execution of the test cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

The configuration and compatibility is a task for the user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Selenium is mainly used for UI automation."
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

It is used to automate any web-based applications. Best part is we can use multiple programming languages to write scripts like java, python, c#, php, java script etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

You need to have good understanding of any one of the programming languages like java, c# python etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yi Pei C.
YC
Software Tester
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Must have for automation testing!"
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium WebDriver makes automation much simpler, even for beginners! The step by step guidance also helps a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Need a few time to know how to set it up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ankur S.
AS
Associate System Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Open Source , Easy to use and best for automating web application"
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

The best thing about selenium web driver is that it is free to use . It can be used to automate any web application . It can be integrated with Maven , TestNG , Jenkins that can be used to enhance the code for automation . Also , extent reports can be generated that are more user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Its incapability to automate windows application . It is free to use so there is no support if we get stuck . Some time while using web application we might find a situation where may find some window related functionality like uploading a file from windows . So , selenium gets failed there . So we might require some integration with other tools . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul G.
RG
Senior Software QA Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Selenium Webdriver Helps to automate every web application"
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

1.) Helps to perform Regression Testing in Less Period of Time

2.) Helps to automate cookies on our web pages

3.) Helps to automate multiple links of web pages

4.) Support multiple languages and platform independent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Needs to learn lot of multiple libraries

Need to learn xpath creation for multiple links Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vu N.
VN
Associate Software Developer
Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Testing made easier with Selenium"
What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

As a Java Developer, it was easy to pick up Selenium since the framework can be easily installed to Eclipse IDE. Selenium had made testing a lot more tolerable by taking care of all the repetitive work. Also, many test cases can be run in a small amount of time. Reports are also generated after each run to help testers analyze the results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Learning how to use wait functions was a challenge. Having to check for elements exist before doing any action took a bit of time to get use to. The default reports generated could be better. Having to install extentreport was difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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