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, SeleniumHQ and others in Regression Testing Tools."The standout feature of k6 is its strong focus on API performance testing."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"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 most valuable feature of Selenium HQ is it provides support for third-party tools, such as screenshots, and automates Windows-based applications."
"The plugins, the components, and the method of the library with Selenium is very user defined."
"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."
"I like its simplicity."
"Data parametrization and parallelization are the most important features in any automation tool."
"It is a good automation tool."
"One area where k6 could improve is by introducing a GUI similar to JMeter."
"Selenium uses a layer-based approach that is somewhat slower than Eggplant when it comes to executing code."
"One drawback to Selenium is that there is nothing like an object repository, such as that found in QTP, especially considering continuous integration practices that have become common nowadays."
"One limitation of Selenium is that it is purely focused on web application testing."
"Could have additional readability and abstraction."
"I continuously see failures in threads when it is running in parallel."
"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."
"Sometimes we face challenges with Selenium HQ. There are third party tools that we use, for example for reading the images, that are not easy to plug in. The third party add-ons are difficult to get good configuration and do not have good support. I would like to see better integration with other products."
"It would be very great if Selenium would provide some framework examples so newcomers could get started more quickly."
k6 Open Source is ranked 14th in Regression Testing Tools with 1 review while Selenium HQ is ranked 3rd 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 "Continuously being developed and large community makes it easy to find solutions". k6 Open Source is most compared with Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, Akamai CloudTest and RadView WebLOAD, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Telerik Test Studio, Worksoft Certify, Tricentis Tosca and OpenText Silk Test.
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