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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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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/23/2019

"Best tool for app testing "

4.5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Best to perform unit functional and regression testing and the we can generate a self understanding graphs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium support is unavailable and some time the loading time is more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amy S.

Solutions Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/9/2018

"Selenium is great!!"

5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

There are endless possibilities with Selenium. I ran across Selenium while I was working on an assignment that should have taken weeks but with Selenium I finished it in two days! Now I use Selenium for many other projects. It has saved a lot of time for many of our projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

It can be difficult to access external web applications but it is not impossible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Selenium WebDriver:

If you run into a problem, there most likely is an answer. Use the internet to look up your questions because it is quite useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We had to retrieve images from a website with about a hundred thousand images and instead of doing it manually, we ran the Selenium software and it saved our time by locally downloading these images to our computer! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/18/2019

"Best open source web automation tool "

4.5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Excellent tool where we can perform functional unit and regression testing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Difficult to produce automated graphs and no support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sergio F.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/20/2018

"First unit-testing software I used for a web page"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

The possibilities. Even hovers. You can do virtually everything with Selenium on python. I even used to connect to +1.000 routers which had no API and had to do something to every router. It was a real pleasure to work with such strong software. Even the things that seem impossible to do, they are easily done in Selenium. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Maybe I would say the difficulty to find the right thing to do when scraping/testing a website. The possibilities are too wide that sometimes you find yourself more searching than writing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Selenium WebDriver:

You can also use the R package for selenium Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The last time I used it was for the project we had. We had a massive hacking attack and we had to change the password for +1000 routers at their homes. So we used selenium, so instead of weeks, we finished the work in 1 or 2 days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/3/2019

"Great Tool 'Selenium' for automation testing "

4.5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Webdriver element, good support for Chrome and Firefox, Parallel processing, plugin and Integration with open reports(graphical Dashboards), Web-UI testing Automation with Jenkin tool, easy to setup and configure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

require good experience and knowledge in specific language to implement, no good support for IE and Edge browser, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

parkash r.

Software Engineer

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/15/2018

"Easy to automate Test cases in Python with selinium"

2/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

We can create our reusable test script and saved our lots of time of human resources and execute multiple test scripts parallel with fast execution speed with reliable outputs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

When I tried to automate some functionality of my project I need to install external API but after installed it

It througn Error and not able to automate it but after remove those API from my project . It is working fine ,Its means some of API not supported by Python eclipse . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/20/2018

"I use this software at my work"

4/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

I like this software because I only know python language and I can use that in this software. It is easy to install and use. The icons display is good. The guide to use the software is easy to understand. It going s very simple software very handy for use in automation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

The guide included is very long . Some of the components are not used and are there which makes it little difficult for the person who is beginner to work with. It only works for python language if you want to use other language you cannot use this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Veronica F.

Student Technician

Higher Education

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/29/2018

"Great automated testing option"

5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

This fulfills all of the testing needs of the company. The tools are great. The amount of browsers supported is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Nothing to dislike but the product does require a lot of training to be able to use it properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/24/2018

"The pros and cons of python selenium"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Substantially more productive because of dynamic typing

Python data structures are more flexible

It takes less time to run the script and complete the execution

Python already have a xUnit framework in the standard library

It is easy for coding and also easily readable>So there is less training cost.

Maintaining test scripts with Python is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Inability to access elements external to the web application

Lack of native support to generate test/bug reports

Selenium does not support a native QT app

We have subsequently shifted to Selenium with Java Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I run regression test suite for new releases and report the bugs found.This gives testers in our team including me time to focus on testing new features and try out edge test cases.We can focus on UI/UX and also perform exploratory testing.

When there is an urgent release planned we can run the sanity test suite to make sure the basic functionalities in our app are working fine.

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Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/26/2018

"It makes scraping data easy."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

It lets you automate the interaction with a web browser. The web browser can be google chrome, firefox etc. It provides multiple languages to automate the interaction such as python, C# etc. You can control your browser using Python script. Selenium python API is very user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.