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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Priyesh S.

Sr QA Analyst

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/30/2019

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"Selenium Web Driver is the most powerful Open Source Web Automation Tool."

4/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Using Selenium WebDriver we are able to perform Functional ,Unit and Regression Testing.

Selenium supports multiple frameworks like Data Driven, Key Word Driven, Cucumber, JUNIT, NUNIT and Test NG As well.

Supports multiple languages like JAVA,Python and etc.

Selenium is an Antidote of the Mercury, As we know UFT is the product of Mercury and it’s a paid Automation Testing Tool, That’s why selenium guys give name as Selenium, And WebDriver is the Interface.

It’s a Pure client server based architecture, We can send request and as per the request its perform operation in the web Browser.

We can execute our scripts is Firefox, Chrome , IE & Safari Browser as well. Earlier there was a no addition driver was required to launch the browsers Now for FireFox Driver we have required Gecko Driver,ChromerDriver.exe for launching chrome driver, IEDriverServer.exe for launching IE browser. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Difficult to handle windows based uploading and downloading pop ups, As we know by using AUTOIT we are able to achieve this, But if perform any user action it’s not perform the expected operation.

In JavaScript application object recognition is quite difficult.

Not easy to automate Graphs, Like read graph legend text.

Not supported Sikuli end to end some time unable to recognized the same image.

If multiple frames are there with same name, It’s slight difficult to move between the one frame to another.

No official selenium support, Variety of configuration is required. For every purpose we have to required the jar file like for Reporting extent jar, For data base jdbc jar, For Rest Assured API rest assured jar is required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Selenium WebDriver:

I will recommend all Functional tester to use Selenium, By using this they can reduce manual testing effort while performing Regression or end to end testing.

Easy to automate web application, Identify web elements keep them in to the Object repository, Whatever the operation need to perform like click, Send Keys, gettext(), are easily to perform.

By using the Page object Model in selenium WebDriver we have separate OR and Test case files. All the function need to create in the OR and call those functions in Test java file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

By Using Data Driver framework able to perform end to end scenario, Like read and write data in the same excel file.

In Selenium we are able to create a xpath in a many way like child node to parent node and vice versa, using preceding and following siblings like that.

We are able to switches between multiple frames, Switches from one window to another window, Capable to handle Alerts as well.

Operations related to Data Table are easy to perform using selenium.

Selenium supported Maven as well by using this no need to download additional jar file, Only set dependencies under POM.xml file, In that case chances of virus would be very less.

By using TestNG in Selenium its easy to us to run test in a suite and Variety of annotation are there by using those we are able to customize our test cases as well.

For Reporting Extent reporting supported by selenium, It will generate reports after every test.

Set Browser capabilities it will launch the browser with required capabilities like that we are able to customize browser as well.

Database testing is much easier, By using JDBC Connection we are able to fetch the values from DB as well.

By Using Rest Assured API Framework we are able to Hit the API and GET the response using selenium Web Driver.

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Raj K.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/10/2019

"Selenium the backbone for all automation testing needs"

5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Starting from the Selenium IDE to the latest Selenium webdriver, this one tool has helped millions for an easy design and implementation of the software automation testing needs to deliver a high quality product by the business. Without Selenium may IT companies would have suffered to deliver the quality product on time for their customers.

Selenium is the best Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Nothing As there is a lot more to explore and learn within Selenium Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ponrajkumar J.

Quality Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/21/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"King of Open Source Automation Testing"

5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

First thing is it is open source

Easy to use and integrate

Web driver and maven architecture allows us to customize many things Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

More coding skills required for Automation Testing using selenium Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pankaj R.

QA Lead

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/1/2019

"Best framework for automating test cases"

4/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium Webdriver is best to automate our test cases. Selenium provide us very methods we can use to click or type on any webelements . Webdriver is an interface which is implemented in chrome driver, Firefox driver and other classes. We can easily Integrate many java framework with selenium Webdriver like Apache Log4j, TestNG, Cucumber and many others. It is open source , so there is no license required to use selenium Webdriver Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

There is nothing i dislike with Selenium Webdriver. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prem Anand R.

Test Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/2/2019

"Great Automation Tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium Web Driver is a powerful tool to do web based automation. It has seamless integration with different test management tools like ALM, etc.. It can also be used along with Appium for mobile and tablet automation for different platforms like android and ios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Unable to automate Non Web based Apps. This is the only downside. Otherwise, this is pretty powerful tool for a small scale to enterprise level automation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Selenium WebDriver:

Definitely you should use Webdriver if you are testing web applications. Much robust and stable with multiple integrations to 3rd party tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Saves lot of Manual hours and efforts by running automation scripts on a daily basis for the smoke and regression tests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Divyank C.

Associate Software Engineer

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/25/2019

"Best Automation Testing tool."

4/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Selenium webdriver is one of the best tool for automating the software and it cover All action of software and i use daily it for regression testing and its also contain very good features that ones i like most is Automate the scrolling, drop down and radio button automate in websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Its setup is difficult, you have download zar file and all that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/26/2019

"4 years of hands on experience in selenium"

4/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

It's open source and solutions are easily available online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

Sync issues. Could have been more robust. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/7/2019

"Help you to write the automation scripts"

5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

lt's an open source tool, support almost 14 languages. It supports almost all kinds of browsers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

It will not support the android. Sometime few of the libraries are not available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Selenium WebDriver:

Try this if you want to write a good automation script and you will see the beauty of this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I found it as best environment to writing the automation scripts. It will give all relatable libraries to write the automation scripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/3/2019

"Help you to write the automation scripts "

5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

It's open source tool, support almost 14 languages, it's support almost all kinds of browsers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

It's will not support the android, sometime some of the libraries not available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Selenium WebDriver:

If you want to write a good automation script then please try this and you will see the beauty of this tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

You can find a best environment to writing the automation scripts. It will give all relatable libraries to write the automation scripts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marco U.

Application Developer Analyst

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/20/2019

"Great tool for automation "

4.5/5

What do you like best about Selenium WebDriver?

Almost everything on a website can be automated with this awesome library which can decrease tasks time span. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Selenium WebDriver?

When you declare a web element variable it has tu be used on the following line; otherwise, its invocation will be broken. Also not all websites work with the headless feature, some elements are not present when using the headless mode Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.