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Why Use Selenium for Automation Testing?

by Vijayshri A. IT Expert

Why Selenium Is Popular

Not only is it Selenium free, it's open source. It's used by many leading online ventures for analyzing their internet interfaces such as Facebook and Google. Once setup, it's delivers an efficient approach to create test scripts, confirm operation and reuse those scripts in automatic test frameworks.


It's not a case of having your cake and eating it too unfortunately. Selenium calls for a substantial number of technical experience and third party tools to become fully operational. Furthermore, its simplicity of use in the GUI level can mislead testers into overusing it for analyzing lower layers from the program stack. But, let us begin with the positive features of testing using Selenium.


Selenium Experts

Selenium does not have any upfront, out-of-pocket expenses. It's a free download and service is free also, though it's community-based.


Selenium tests are, in principle, able to operate under various browsers.


Though Selenium has its own script language, you aren't confined to writing in that language as it can use language bindings to encourage everything your developers/testers are familiar with such as C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python and many others.


Selenium scripts are made by recording activities using the internet application under evaluation running at a browser. These scripts could be stored and re-run at any moment. Selenium tests can be produced manually through the usage of internet development tools like Firebug also.


Selenium doesn't limit QA's selection of reporting programs, build any other component of the testing frame. It integrates nicely with popular tools like Hudson, SauceLabs, Selenium-Grid, QMetry along with many others.


Additionally, it supports web applications that execute a part of the performance within the browser using JavaScript and AJAX technologies.


Due to its many benefits, Selenium finds wide use for UI, regression, unit and acceptance testing. Due to the rapid evaluation development it empowers, it's fairly popular for quick-cycle development methods like Agile or Extreme Programming. Selenium can also be popular with IT employees who automate repetitive, online administrative jobs.


Selenium Cons

Selenium isn't a complete, thorough solution to completely automating the testing of web applications. It requires third party frameworks, language bindings and so to become genuinely powerful.


Despite its approval of additional evaluation script formats, it needs higher-level technical abilities, such as programming, out of QA group members.


It does not have any test management centers. Test scripts have been stored as easy files without features. Organizing individual scripts at any manner using a user interface takes a third party instrument or a custom program.


Since native"Selenese" test scripts aren't user friendly concerning readability, they are hard to change. Many testers simply resort into shedding the initial scripts and documenting them , which is time consuming.


Selenium doesn't support evaluation and outcome sharing in anything but a manual manner.


There's not any support for running tests in parallel to a single computer.


Selenium has specialized problems with browsers other than Firefox. What's more, it doesn't encourage conditionals, loops and has difficulty locating locators without the assistance of additional tools like Firebug.



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