Showing posts with label Advantages and Disadvantages of selenium automation tool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Advantages and Disadvantages of selenium automation tool. Show all posts

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Advantages and Disadvantages of selenium automation tool


Advantages of Selenium

    1. Open Source
    2. Supports all browsers like IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari
    3. Supports all Operating Systems.
    4. Supports all programming languages Java,Ruby,C# and Python.
    5. Run multiple tests at a time.

Disadvantages

  1. Identifying the locators that support common attributes like id, names etc as well as XPATH, javascript DOM and others (Use firebug for finding the locators)
  2. Detailed results are not available
  3. Selenium IDE does not supports loop and data driven testing
  4. No Option to verify the images.