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 features would be the image recognition and the OCR."
"We are able to now automate tests, which so far have been manual."
"We did see a massive return on investment from using Eggplant."
"The solution is a stable one."
"The most valuable features of Eggplant Digital Automation Intelligence are bug hunting and OCR technology."
"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 solution is based on a Windows model, where adding users is just a few clicks. It is easy to manage users and add them."
"Its scalability is good. It is useful for desktop applications, and it also uses OCR and does image recognition."
"There are many useful features in Selenium that I like, and of the new features I particularly enjoy the Selenium Grid. With this, we can run many test cases in one go, and in one suite we can extract multiple results."
"Selenium WebDriver and Selenium IDE are useful."
"The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment took about seven months."
"The grids, as well as the selectors, are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of Selenium HQ is the ability to configure a lot of automated processes."
"Due to its popularity, you can find pretty much any answer in open discussions from the community."
"The most valuable features are the ability to test and debug."
"It is more stable in comparison to other solutions because they have quite some experience in the market."
"There was no free trial in it."
"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."
"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."
"The solution would crash from time to time."
"Eggplant Digital Automation Intelligence could improve by lowering the price."
"We found that we had issues regarding the VPN setup, which is one of the reasons that we did not purchase this solution."
"It has low productivity."
"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."
"For people that don't know about technology, maybe it's difficult to use."
"Coding skills are required to use Selenium, so it could be made more user-friendly for non-programmers."
"Selenium is good when the team is really technical because Selenium does less built-in methods. If it came with more built-in and pre-built methods it would be even easier for less technical people to work with it. That's where I think the improvement can be."
"Shadow DOM could be improved and the handling of single page applications. Right now, it's a bit complicated and there are a lot of additional scripts required if you want to handle a single page application in a neat way."
"The solution can be improved by providing better reporting logs."
"Selenium has been giving us failures sometimes. It is not working one hundred percent of the time when we are creating elements. They need to improve the stability of the solution."
"Selenium has room for improvement as it does not support the tests and result-sharing in anything but a manual way."
"I would like to see XPath made more reliable so that it can be used in all browsers."
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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