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."
"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."
"It supports most of the mainstream browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, IE and etc."
"Some of the most valuable features of this solution are open-source, they have good support, good community support, and it supports multiple languages whether you use C-Sharp or not. These are some of the most important benefits."
"What I like about Selenium HQ is that we wrote it ourselves. I think it's perfect. It's a framework that you can use to devise your own products, which is nice."
"The stability and performance are good."
"Due to its popularity, you can find pretty much any answer in open discussions from the community."
"I like its simplicity."
"Selenium's open-source nature is a key advantage. Its extensive support for diverse web technologies."
"One area where k6 could improve is by introducing a GUI similar to JMeter."
"Whenever an object is changed or something is changed in the UI, then we have to refactor the code."
"Selenium HQ could have better interaction with SAP products."
"I would like to see some reporting or test management tools."
"They should add more functionality to the solution."
"An improvement to Selenium HQ would be the inclusion of a facility to work on Shadow DOM."
"There are some tiny issues with SeleniumHQ. For example, with respect to the scraping tests. Sometimes, a website will have some hidden items or blockages that inhibit us from extracting data directly. It would be beneficial if Selenium could extract that information."
"If they can integrate more recording features, like UFT, it would be helpful for automation, but it's not necessary. They can also add a few more reporting features for advanced reporting."
"The solution does not offer up enough information in regards to personality testing."
k6 Open Source is ranked 14th in Regression Testing Tools with 1 review while Selenium HQ is ranked 4th in Regression Testing Tools with 102 reviews. k6 Open Source is rated 7.0, 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, RadView WebLOAD, Akamai CloudTest and BlazeMeter, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio and OpenText Silk Test.
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