Pros and Cons of Selenium Testing Automation Software

Pros and Cons of Selenium Testing Automation Software

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  There is ahuge online community of selenium enthusiasts that share a huge amount of information pertaining to selenium that can be both learned and applied. IT SUPPORTS MOBILE TESTING Native, hybrid or web mobile applications can be tested with selenium tool, by just using additional software. SELENIUM SUPPORTS A WIDE VARIETY OF PLATFORMS Selenium is supported by popular programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, C#, Java etc. A HUGE COMMUNITY Selenium Testing Automation Software Pros and Cons Selenium has proved to be a highly popular test automation tool and organizations have benefitted through this highly efficient tool. Over a span of years, selenium has proved to be a demanding test automation tool because of its key features and huge support. Pros of Selenium Testing Automation Cons of Selenium Testing Automation QUITE CHALLENGING TO MANAGE There are testing scenarios where the amount of test data is huge and it becomes quite difficult to analyze and process. MAINTENANCE ISSUES There is a constant change in code in the DevOps environment. An organization can use techniques and strategies to reduce the effects of codebases that are changing on automated testing. LACK OF REPORTING CAPABILITIES When it comes to test creation and test reporting like CI dashboards, cross-platform comparison, HAR file generation, video recording etc., selenium lacks efficiency from an implementation point of view.