We performed a comparison between k6 Open Source and Selenium HQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tricentis, OpenText, Katalon Studio and others in Regression Testing Tools."The standout feature of k6 is its strong focus on API performance testing."
"The tool's big advantage is that it is more performance-test oriented for experienced testers who know what they are doing. In a normal working setup, performance engineers frequently work with DevOps and development teams. For these teams, k6 Open Source's syntax is much simpler and easier to understand and apply in the working process."
"It is programming language agnostic, you can write tests in most currently used languages."
"It supports many external plugins, and because it's a Java-based platform, it's language-independent. You can use Java, C#, Python, etc."
"In general, I would say that the API set is the most valuable feature."
"I like that it is a robust and free open source. There is a lot of community support available, and there are a lot of developers using them. There's good community support."
"The ability to present your tests on a wiki page and hooking them up to the scripts/fixtures."
"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."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its flexibility, being open source, and it has close to no limits when it comes to integrating with any language, or browser you are using."
"Selenium WebDriver and Selenium IDE are useful."
"One area where k6 could improve is by introducing a GUI similar to JMeter."
"The solution's UI path needs to be modernized."
"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."
"It would be better to have a simplified way to locate and identify web elements."
"Selenium HQ doesn't support Windows-based applications, so we need to integrate with the third-party vendor. It would be great if Selenium could include Windows-based automation. You need to integrate it with a third-party tool if you want to upload any files. When we interact with a Windows application, we usually use Tosca."
"I would like to see some reporting or test management tools."
"The initial setup was difficult."
"They should add more functionality to the solution."
"Selenium HQ can improve the authorization login using OTP, it is not able to be done in this solution."
k6 Open Source is ranked 13th in Regression Testing Tools with 2 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 4th in Regression Testing Tools with 103 reviews. k6 Open Source is rated 7.6, while Selenium HQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of k6 Open Source writes "Offers good scalability and has the ability to integrate with various systems and services". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Selenium HQ writes "Easy to use with great pricing and lots of documentation". k6 Open Source is most compared with Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, BlazeMeter and RadView WebLOAD, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio and Automation Anywhere (AA).
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