Selenium WebDriver Reviews & Product Details

Selenium WebDriver is an open-source tool that automates web browser interactions, enabling developers and testers to simulate real user actions for web application testing. It supports multiple programming languages, including Java, Python, C#, Ruby, and JavaScript, allowing users to write test scripts in their preferred language. WebDriver interacts directly with browser drivers, facilitating cross-browser testing across platforms like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Internet Explorer. This direct communication ensures more stable and reliable tests by mimicking real user behavior without the need for a separate server installation. Key Features and Functionality: - Cross-Browser Compatibility: Enables testing across various browsers, ensuring consistent application behavior. - Multi-Language Support: Offers bindings for languages such as Java, Python, C#, Ruby, and JavaScript, providing flexibility for testers. - Direct Browser Control: Interacts with browsers through native drivers, leading to more accurate and stable tests. - Parallel Test Execution: Integrates with Selenium Grid to run tests concurrently on multiple machines, reducing execution time. - Open-Source and Community-Driven: Freely available with a robust community, ensuring continuous improvements and support. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Selenium WebDriver addresses the need for efficient, reliable, and scalable web application testing. By automating browser interactions, it reduces manual testing efforts, accelerates the testing process, and ensures applications function correctly across different browsers and platforms. Its support for multiple programming languages and integration capabilities make it a versatile choice for teams aiming to enhance their testing frameworks and deliver high-quality web applications.

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Rahul G.

Senior Software QA Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/17/2020

"Selenium Webdriver Helps to automate every web application"

4/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

1.) Helps to perform Regression Testing in Less Period of Time

2.) Helps to automate cookies on our web pages

3.) Helps to automate multiple links of web pages

4.) Support multiple languages and platform independent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Needs to learn lot of multiple libraries

Need to learn xpath creation for multiple links Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vu N.

Associate Software Developer

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/29/2019

"Testing made easier with Selenium"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

As a Java Developer, it was easy to pick up Selenium since the framework can be easily installed to Eclipse IDE. Selenium had made testing a lot more tolerable by taking care of all the repetitive work. Also, many test cases can be run in a small amount of time. Reports are also generated after each run to help testers analyze the results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Learning how to use wait functions was a challenge. Having to check for elements exist before doing any action took a bit of time to get use to. The default reports generated could be better. Having to install extentreport was difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Selenium WebDriver:

Learning Java fundamentals should help kickstart your journey to learning selenium. Many resources are available online for Selenium. Make sure to utilize them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Selenium WebDriver solving and how is that benefiting you?

Selenium took care of all the mundane repetitive tasks testers have to go through. It also speeds up testing and test more cases in a short amount of time. It's also just a good and fun tool for personal use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bhimashankar B.

Senior Software Test Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/29/2020

"Selenium change the world"

5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium helps the organisations to automate the scenario and save the time and helps to reduce the error for build better product to fulfill the customers needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

It's doesn't support to mobile automation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rhimjhim G.

Senior Quality Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/10/2019

"Automation framework to automate the Test Cases and make the tasks Easy"

5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium webdriver is targeted basically for the manual testers who just want to switch to automation and enhance their careers,software test engineers who already are practicing automation just use it to brush up the technologies,QA managers etc. Its kind of suite of tools to automate web browsers across multiple platforms.It can run in browsers like mozilla,safari etc and can be used to automate test cases.It can be used in various languages etc.Its a open source tool and is also platform independent in MAC,Windows and Linux.It also supports multiple languages like java,python,C# etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Major drawback for this is that it is used for web based Applications only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Selenium WebDriver:

it supports multiple OS,browsers and languages.Javascript which is difficult to use in Selenium RC has been completely removed from Selenium Webdriver. It directly interacts with the native code of the browsers and has a separate class for different browsers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Selenium WebDriver solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is a open source tool and is free of cost.It is also platform independent in like MAC,Windows and IOS. It supports multiple languages like JAVA,C#,Python,ruby etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manjunath K.

Senior Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/1/2019

"Selenium a web automation toolS"

5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium webdriver is most powerful open source tool which helps in automating web applications.More over its cross platform. It supports many browsers such as chrome, IE , firefox ,safari. Selenium webdriver allows us to choose programming language of our choice to create test scripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium webdriver supports only web based applications. It will not support window based applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Selenium WebDriver:

Selenium is open source tool , we dont need to pay for it. It is very powerful tool developed in the current market which helps in automating web applications. I highly recommend it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Selenium WebDriver solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. Created automation test scripts using selenium which reduces manual effort.

2 . Integrated selenium with different frameworks such as Maven , Testng for better performance and reporting.

3. Integrated selenium with Jenkins for 24/7 execution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/4/2020

"Selenium Web Driver used for integrating with CICD pipeline"

4/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Good enough documentation for the team to build the required code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Nothing that we faced during our use case development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ragavi K.

Contractor

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/9/2019

"Selenium webdriver"

5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium framework by itself has become the most popular tool/framework for automating web application and to prepare regression test suites. Looking up for component and automating the button clicks and navigation among pages has become a lot easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Among all the web automation frameworks in the market I have found selenium to be most useful none so there is nothing to complain Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Will H.

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Computer Networking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/18/2019

"Great tool for testing web-based application"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium WebDriver is mainly used by the QA team in my company as part of the quality assurance process. Selenium supports cross-browser automation, API automation, and database automation. And it Saves a lot of time when automating websites rather than testing them manually. Selenium WebDriver is an open-source tool. It supports most of the popular web browsers. Selenium documentation is rich and clear, and it has a large community with excellent support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

UI needs to improve.

Sometimes Selenium does not locate all the elements properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Selenium WebDriver:

Advanced programming skills are required if you want to learn everything supported by Selenium. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Selenium WebDriver solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Selenium WebDriver for our web application testing and it saves a lot of time with its automation testing system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Osmani D.

Software QA Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/31/2019

"Clean and efficient"

5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

What is best about Selenium is that it has everything you need to test covered on the driver! When you build the test framework of your app with Selenium, you get yourself a very sustainable test framework which will need very little effort to extend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

It might be the browser's fault, but some of the "native popups" might not be recognized by selenium, and in those cases you might need to use another tool to get the work done for those cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.