Selenium HQ Pros and Cons

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.

The solution is very flexible; there are different ways of using it. It's open-source and has a lot of support on offer.

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.

The primary benefit is its cost and the ability to use the cloud.

You can build your own framework. I think that's the most powerful feature. You can connect with a lot of other tools that use frameworks, or keywords, etc. That helps make it a stronger solution.

The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment took about seven months.

The most valuable feature is the Selenium grid, which allows us to run tests in parallel.

The solution's UI path needs to be modernized.

The solution does not offer up enough information in regards to personality testing.

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.

Improvement in Selenium's ability to identify and wait for the page/element to load would be a big plus. This would ensure that our failed test cases will drop by 60%.

It does require a programming skill set. I would like the product not to require a heavy programming skill set and be more user-friendly for someone without a programming background.

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.

Technical support isn't very good. Sometimes their recommendations were not very clear.

I would like to see XPath made more reliable so that it can be used in all browsers.