Selenium HQ Pros review quotes

MF
Jul 29, 2021
Its biggest advantage is that it is very customizable.
AB
Nov 3, 2021
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.
AR
Nov 3, 2021
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.
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SG
Jul 22, 2020
What I like the most about this product is that it gives us a lot of freedom to code anything, there is no restriction on the type of function you can do.
KR
Oct 5, 2021
Selenium is the fastest tool compared to other competitors. It can run on any language, like Java, Python, C++, and .NET. So we can test any application on Selenium, whether it's mobile or desktop.
MK
Sep 9, 2021
Data parametrization and parallelization are the most important features in any automation tool.
Harold Rios - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 3, 2021
The solution is free to use.
Naveen Alok - PeerSpot reviewer
May 4, 2022
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.
NC
Sep 3, 2021
My customer previously validated every file and it would take almost 15-20 minutes for a document. They used to randomly select and test only 100 out of the thousands, maybe 85,000, files, to pick up sampling. Each file would take around 20 to 25 minutes, so we were not able to do it manually, but with the help of Selenium, we were able to test all the files in two days. It saves a lot of time.
Harold Rios - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 30, 2022
The main characteristic that is useful is that the tool is completely free.
 

Selenium HQ Cons review quotes

MF
Jul 29, 2021
We use X path for our selectors, and sometimes, it is difficult to create locators for elements. It is very time-consuming because they're embedded deeply. A lot of that comes from the way that you architect your page. If devs are putting the IDs on their elements, it is great, and it allows you to get those elements super fast, but that's not necessarily the case. So, Selenium should be able to get your elements a lot quicker. Currently, it is time-consuming to get your selectors, locate your locators, and get to the elements.
AB
Nov 3, 2021
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.
AR
Nov 3, 2021
For email-based applications, we can't automate as we would like to, making it necessary to bring in a third-party product to do so.
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SG
Jul 22, 2020
Selenium is good when the team is really technical because Selenium does less built-in methods. If it came with more built-in and pre-built methods it would be even easier for less technical people to work with it. That's where I think the improvement can be.
KR
Oct 5, 2021
For now, I guess Selenium could add some other features like object communications for easy expansion.
MK
Sep 9, 2021
I continuously see failures in threads when it is running in parallel.
Harold Rios - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 3, 2021
For people that don't know about technology, maybe it's difficult to use.
Naveen Alok - PeerSpot reviewer
May 4, 2022
Shadow DOM could be improved and the handling of single page applications. Right now, it's a bit complicated and there are a lot of additional scripts required if you want to handle a single page application in a neat way.
NC
Sep 3, 2021
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.
Harold Rios - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 30, 2022
If the test scenarios are not subdivided correctly, it is very likely that maintenance will become very expensive and re-use is unlikely.