- Jun 02, 2018
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Here are Advantages and Limitations of Selenium Web Driver..
Advantages of Selenium Web Driver:
- Selenium is open source, there is no licensing cost for its use.
- The Selenium IDE component provides access to selenium suite records and playback features in which non-programmer automation scripts can also be written. Scripts created from Selenium IDE can be exported as Java /C#/Ruby/Python scripts.
- Selenium Grid helps in parallel and distributed testing.
- Most of the widely used programming languages such as Java, C#, Ruby, and Python can be scripted.
- Selenium Webdriver supports popular browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari etc…
Limitations of Selenium:
- Selenium only supports testing of web based applications.
- The mobile appplications can not be tested using selenium.
- Reports can only be prepared using third party tools such as TestNG, Junit, Extent Reports etc.
- Using selenium, captcha and bar code readers cannot be tested.
- Selenium is a free tool, thus there is no ready vendor support, although the user can find many helpful communities.
- Many Challenges With IE Browsers
- The user is expected to keep programming language knowledge before using Selenium Webdriver.
