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What are Limitations of Selenium?

At present, Selenium is one of the most popular test automation frameworks for web applications. As an open source test automation framework, Selenium enables testers to evaluate a variety of web applications without increasing project overheads. At the same time, Selenium makes it easier for testing professionals for web application testing by supporting major web browsers and operating systems. Here is an interesting read on the effectiveness of Selenium in web application testing.

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What are Limitations of Selenium?

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  1. What are Limitations of Selenium?

  2.  At present, Selenium is one of the most popular test automation frameworks for web applications. As an open source test automation framework, Selenium enables testers to evaluate a variety of web applications without increasing project overheads.  At the same time, Selenium makes it easier for testing professionals for web application testing by supporting major web browsers and operating systems. Here is an interesting read on the effectiveness of Selenium in web application testing.  Also, the developers can integrate the test automation tool seamlessly with varied web development projects as it supports an array of widely used programming languages including PHP, Java, JavaScript, C#, Ruby, Python and Perl. They can even take advantage of the tools provided by Selenium to control various aspects of web browsers automatically and programmatically.  That is why the popularity of Selenium is increasing.

  3. At the same time, Selenium IDE, as a robust record and playback tool, enables testers to evaluate the web applications efficiently without writing test scripts. The testers can even use the record and playback tool to evaluate websites without being proficient in scripting languages. But Selenium, like other software testing tools, has its own shortcomings. The testing professionals must understand the important limitations of Selenium to assess web application more efficiently.

  4. Understanding Some of the Important Limitations of Selenium TESTERS NEED ADDITIONAL TIME TO WRITE TEST CASES As the successor to Selenium Remote Control (RC), Selenium WebDriver enables testers to create browser-based regression tests and test suites efficiently. Also, the user can distribute the regression test scripts seamlessly across different environments. But Selenium WebDriver, unlike other test automation frameworks, does not supplement the programming interface with an IDE. Hence, the testers have to write steps elaborately while writing test scripts for individual tasks.

  5. DOES NOT PROVIDE ANY TEST MANAGEMENT TOOL While testing complex web applications, QA professionals require test management tools to monitor test case execution, store test data, plan testing activities, and capture status of various tests. Most test automation frameworks simplify testing of complex web applications by providing built-in test management tools. But the testers still lack the option to avail a test management tool while working with Selenium.

  6. LACKS BUILT-IN REPORTING FEATURE The built-in result reporting feature provide by licensed test automation frameworks make it easier for testers to generate and present test results. Selenium still lacks built-in result report capability. IT requires testers to generate test reports through third-party testing frameworks. Often testing professionals integrate Selenium with TestNG or JUnit to present test results and generate test reports.

  7. SELENIUM IDE SUPPORTS A SINGLE BROWSER Selenium IDE enables testers to evaluate web applications without writing test scripts. A tester can even use the record and playback tool to evaluate websites without having any programming experience. Also, Selenium IDE supports a wide range of extensions. But the testers have to use Selenium IDE as a Firefox plug-in. The record and playback tool is currently not compatible with web browsers other than Mozilla Firefox.

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