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.
"Its scalability is good. It is useful for desktop applications, and it also uses OCR and does image recognition."
"Good text reading ability."
"The most valuable features would be the image recognition and the OCR."
"The main feature of Eggplant Test is that it can do fully automated web testing and app testing."
"We did see a massive return on investment from using Eggplant."
"The features that we like the most are the developer interface and the ability to quickly develop and deploy tests."
"It provides very strong cross-platform support."
"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."
"I have found using IDE and Cucumber framework is good."
"Language support - since it supports Java and other programming languages it is easy to integrate with other systems."
"Our platform runs into several thousand screens and a few thousand test cases, something which would typically take months to test manually. As of today, the entire process takes a little over two days to run."
"I like the record and playback features. We also appreciate that it's not just writing on a script that we create. While we were browsing our web application, it automatically records all the clicks and movements of points. We also appreciate the fact that it provides screenshots of everything in the output."
"Selenium's open-source nature is a key advantage. Its extensive support for diverse web technologies."
"Due to its popularity, you can find pretty much any answer in open discussions from the community."
"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."
"The testing solution produces the best web applications."
"The solution would crash from time to time."
"We found that we had issues regarding the VPN setup, which is one of the reasons that we did not purchase this solution."
"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."
"The language is too specific; it is just for Eggplant."
"They need to update the Linux. I think it's kind of an outdated Java Swing application."
"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."
"Eggplant Test should emphasize on improving its offering in non-Windows environments."
"The IDE could be even more full-featured. Because I was a developer, I was very spoiled by either Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for shortcuts. For example, I was able to say "ctor" and hit Tab and it would create a template of a constructor for me... It would be great, when I want to create a new function, if there were shortcut commands like those that helped create all of the functions, or if there were shortcut features to do any of the complex plans."
"The initial setup of Selenium HQ is difficult in many areas, such as the framework."
"We'd like to see some more image management in future releases."
"The solution is open-source, so everyone relies on the community to assist with troubleshooting and information sharing. If there's a complex issue no one has faced, it may take a while to solve the problem."
"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."
"In the beginning, we had issues with several test cases failing during regression. Over a period of time, we built our own framework around Selenium which helped us overcome of these issues."
"An improvement to Selenium HQ would be the inclusion of a facility to work on Shadow DOM."
"Technical support isn't very good. Sometimes their recommendations were not very clear."
"Selenium HQ can be complex. The interface requires a QA engineer or an expert to use it."
Eggplant Test is ranked 12th in Test Automation Tools with 16 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 4th in Regression Testing Tools with 102 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, SmartBear TestComplete, froglogic Squish and OpenText UFT One, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio, OpenText Silk Test and Automation Anywhere (AA). See our Eggplant Test vs. Selenium HQ report.
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