We performed a comparison between Eggplant Digital Automation Intelligence (DAI) and Selenium HQ based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the above criteria, Selenium HQ finishes just ahead of Eggplant DAI. Selenium users tell us testing times are faster and deliver great, accurate results. As it is open-source, it is very flexible and integrates well with every tool. Finally, as it is free, it is cost-effective, saves money, and helps organizations maintain profitability.
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create code from a flow chart, and then run the code through it."
"The solution is based on a Windows model, where adding users is just a few clicks. It is easy to manage users and add them."
"DAI's newest release allows us to test via scripts rather than models, because we have done 95 percent of our development in functional, not through modeling. I am really happy that then we can use the controller to run scripts rather than having to translate things to models. There are lots of options."
"Everything is happening on the layout or display that is used by the user. Eggplant prompts processes, like 'click here,' or 'look for this image.' Eggplant makes it possible for QA people and BAs, working in the actual display, to check if the software is providing the right images, the right text, and the right results. They don't have to go inside the code or to the TCP/IP layer. Everything is happening at the highest level."
"The most valuable features would be the image recognition and the OCR."
"It provides very strong cross-platform support."
"We are able to now automate tests, which so far have been manual."
"The solution is a stable one."
"The most valuable feature of Selenium HQ is the ability to create automatic tests that can replicate human behavior."
"It is very stable."
"The most valuable features of Selenium HQ are the automation of all UI tests, its open-source, reliability, and is supported by Google."
"Selenium HQ's most valuable feature is picking up and entering values from web pages."
"It's easy for new people to get trained on this solution. If we are hiring new people, the resource pool in the market in test automation is largely around Selenium."
"Selenium web driver - Java."
"The stability and performance are good."
"Selenium has helped to complete tests in less time, which would not be possible relying on manual testing only."
"The reporting function is a bit shallow. The solution does not offer very comprehensive reporting in terms of your test results. The reporting time and the logs are very high level as well. These areas need improvement."
"They need to update the Linux. I think it's kind of an outdated Java Swing application."
"The solution would crash from time to time."
"In terms of additional features, it would be helpful to have one package for all testing. You have the manager, the AI, then you have functional, and about 10 different packages for installing."
"There was no free trial in it."
"If one area could be improved, it would be some of their documentation. In particular, some of their online help and user support documentation is a little bit out of date and could be revised and updated on a more frequent basis. Other than that, I haven't really found any issues or problems."
"A step forward would be to have event support, because it is more or less linear at the moment."
"I would like to see standardized actions already built into Eggplant. For example, "wait eight seconds". That way, I wouldn't need to create it as an action. Right now, I have to program that wait and describe it as an action so that everybody knows it is an action that waits eight seconds... That way, somebody who is not familiar with programming processes like "if-else", or "for", or "while", would be able, from the first moment, and without programming, to put some easy-to-use, standardized, actions in place."
"It does require a programming skill set. I would like the product not to require a heavy programming skill set and be more user-friendly for someone without a programming background."
"They should leverage the tools for supporting Windows apps."
"Whenever an object is changed or something is changed in the UI, then we have to refactor the code."
"We can only use Selenium HQ for desktop applications which would be helpful. We are only able to do online based applications."
"Selenium uses a layer-based approach that is somewhat slower than Eggplant when it comes to executing code."
"It is not easy to make IE plus Selenium work good as other browsers. Firefox and Chrome are the best ones to work with Selenium."
"The installation could be simplified, it is a bit difficult to install."
"For now, I guess Selenium could add some other features like object communications for easy expansion."
Eggplant Test is ranked 12th in Test Automation Tools with 16 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 4th in Regression Testing Tools with 103 reviews. Eggplant Test is rated 7.8, while Selenium HQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Eggplant Test writes "Empowers effective test automation with comprehensive platform coverage and scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Selenium HQ writes "Easy to use with great pricing and lots of documentation". Eggplant Test is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio, froglogic Squish, SmartBear TestComplete and OpenText UFT One, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio, Automation Anywhere (AA) and OpenText Silk Test. See our Eggplant Test vs. Selenium HQ report.
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