We performed a comparison between Selenium HQ and Visual Studio Test Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Functional Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The stability and performance are good."
"Selenium is the fastest tool compared to other competitors. It can run on any language, like Java, Python, C++, and .NET. So we can test any application on Selenium, whether it's mobile or desktop."
"Selenium WebDriver and Selenium IDE are useful."
"The most valuable aspect of Selenium is that it gives you the flexibility to customize or write your own code, your own features, etc. It's not restricted by licensing."
"The ability to present your tests on a wiki page and hooking them up to the scripts/fixtures."
"My customer previously validated every file and it would take almost 15-20 minutes for a document. They used to randomly select and test only 100 out of the thousands, maybe 85,000, files, to pick up sampling. Each file would take around 20 to 25 minutes, so we were not able to do it manually, but with the help of Selenium, we were able to test all the files in two days. It saves a lot of time."
"I am impressed with the product's ability to catch content from website."
"For me, the most valuable feature of Selenium lies in its ability to help us find elements quickly. Apart from that, the driver interface is really useful, too. When we implement the Selenium driver interface, we can easily navigate through all of the pages and sections of an app, including performing things like clicking, putting through SendKeys, scrolling down, tagging, and all the other actions we need to test for in an application."
"The stability has always been very good."
"The most valuable features are tools like IntelliSense and ReSharper."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built support for C# and .NET projects."
"Visual Studio is highly powerful. It's probably the best software development tool on the market."
"The solution is very stable; there's nothing in relation to stability to complain about."
"Customization is the most powerful feature of this product."
"It is very easy to use. You can handle a lot of things together at once in one package, which is a good point for us."
"The tool has highly detailed debugging features."
"The initial setup of Selenium HQ is difficult in many areas, such as the framework."
"For email-based applications, we can't automate as we would like to, making it necessary to bring in a third-party product to do so."
"Improvement in Selenium's ability to identify and wait for the page/element to load would be a big plus. This would ensure that our failed test cases will drop by 60%."
"The installation could be simplified, it is a bit difficult to install."
"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."
"If the test scenarios are not subdivided correctly, it is very likely that maintenance will become very expensive and re-use is unlikely."
"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 reporting part can be better."
"The product must provide more integration."
"It could be available for multiple platforms and other operating systems like Mac with a native port."
"Visual Studio Test Professional could improve by having better integration with external databases."
"The solution should be cheaper."
"The data flow can be improved."
"The integration with Git needs improving because it is a bit disjointed and unpredictable."
"Its UI could be better."
"Enhancing the support for web application testing and load performance would be an improvement."
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Selenium HQ is ranked 5th in Functional Testing Tools with 103 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 6th in Functional Testing Tools with 48 reviews. Selenium HQ is rated 8.0, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Selenium HQ writes "Easy to use with great pricing and lots of documentation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio and Automation Anywhere (AA), whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and Tricentis Tosca. See our Selenium HQ vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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