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 most valuable feature of Selenium HQ is the ability to configure a lot of automated processes."
"We can run multiple projects at the same time and we can design both types of framework, including data-driven or hybrid. We have got a lot of flexibility here."
"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 and performance are good."
"It is compatible with and supports multiple languages, such as Java and Python. It is open source, and it is widely used."
"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."
"I like its simplicity."
"The primary benefit is its cost and the ability to use the cloud."
"The initial setup is easy. It's easy to configure."
"The user interface is very friendly."
"The interface is easy to use."
"One of the best documentation in the world."
"The tool has highly detailed debugging features."
"It is a very common and strong product. A lot of support is available for this product."
"The most valuable feature of Visual Studio Test Professional is its ease of use."
"The most valuable features of Visual Studio Test Professional are the IntelliSense and the ease of adding the NuGet packages."
"The latest versions are often unstable."
"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."
"Selenium HQ can improve by creating an enterprise version where it can provide the infrastructure for running the tests. Currently, we need to run the test in our infrastructure because it's a free tool. If Google can start an enterprise subscription and they can provide us with the infrastructure, such as Google Cloud infrastructure where we can configure it, and we can run the test there, it would be highly beneficial."
"I would like to see XPath made more reliable so that it can be used in all browsers."
"There's no in-built reporting available."
"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."
"Selenium has room for improvement as it does not support the tests and result-sharing in anything but a manual way."
"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."
"Enhancing the support for web application testing and load performance would be an improvement."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a little pricey."
"Visual Studio Test Professional should include more automation."
"The server that we use is very slow so that is concerning for us."
"Visual Studio Test Professional needs to improve its stability."
"I would like to see more integration in the solution."
"The performance could be faster."
"The product must provide more integration."
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Selenium HQ is ranked 4th in Functional Testing Tools with 102 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 7th in Functional Testing Tools with 46 reviews. Selenium HQ is rated 8.0, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Selenium HQ writes "Continuously being developed and large community makes it easy to find solutions". 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 OpenText UFT One. See our Selenium HQ vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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