Why developers like Selenium

What is Selenium?

Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.

Selenium is a tool in the Browser Testing category of a tech stack.

Selenium is an open source tool with 27.8K GitHub stars and 7.8K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Selenium's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Selenium?

Companies

1578 companies reportedly use Selenium in their tech stacks, including CRED, Delivery Hero, and Accenture.

CRED

Delivery Hero

Accenture

Bitpanda

Hepsiburada

trivago

Intuit

Alibaba Travels

Razorpay

Developers

12902 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Selenium.

Evandro Magalhães

SaaS

Personal

Goshipages

ZopNow

2015

Nuvem Educativa

JamesDouglas

Cupong.me

Selenium Integrations

BrowserStack, ScalaTest, WebdriverIO, Sauce Labs, and LambdaTest are some of the popular tools that integrate with Selenium. Here's a list of all 37 tools that integrate with Selenium.

BrowserStack

ScalaTest

WebdriverIO

Sauce Labs

LambdaTest

Nightwatchjs

Percy

Applitools

Targetprocess

Pros of Selenium

173

Automates browsers

154

Testing

101

Essential tool for running test automation

Record-Playback

Remote Control

Data crawling

Supports end to end testing

Functional testing

Easy set up

The Most flexible monitoring system

End to End Testing

Easy to integrate with build tools

Comparing the performance selenium is faster than jasm

Record and playback

Compatible with Python

Easy to scale

Integration Tests

Integrated into Selenium-Jupiter framework

Decisions about Selenium

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Selenium in their tech stack.

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Jun 23, 2023 | 2 upvotes · 2.2K views

Needs advice

Eclipse

and

PyCharm

I am a beginner to start a Selenium with Python.

Which IDE is best for executing suites

Wahid Akbar

Mar 1, 2022 | 2 upvotes · 51.3K views

Needs advice

Selenium

and

TestCafe

What tools will be a good fit for the AngularJS application? I am experienced in Selenium WebDriver with Java. Any suggestion for Selenium or TestCafe?

Binson T. Mathew

Software Engineer at Innovature labs · Feb 3, 2022 | 2 upvotes · 11K views

Needs advice

Capybara

and

Watir

I want to open a page from the Presigned S3 URL. But while using Watir and Selenium am unable to do this. Is there any solution.?

Alejandro Pérez

Aug 20, 2021 | 6 upvotes · 363.9K views

Needs advice

Ionic

PhoneGap

and

React Native

Looking for some advice: we are planning to create a hybrid app for both iOS and Android; this app will consume a REST API. We are looking for a tool for this development with the following attributes:

Shallow learning curve; easiness to adopt (all team is new into mobile development, with diverse backgrounds: Java, Python & AngularJS),
Easiness to test (we discarded Angular-based tools already: creating a unit test in Angular we considered time-consuming and low value. At this point of the project, we cannot afford UI testing with Selenium/Appium based tools).
So far, we are not considering any specific capability of the device. Still, in the mid/long term, we would require the usage of GPS (geolocalization) and accelerometer (not sure if it's possible to use it from a hybrid app). Suggest any other tool if you wish.

ayoub ech-chetyouy

Back-end developer at Luksurios · Jun 10, 2021 | 1 upvote · 10.9K views

Needs advice

Python

Selenium

and

Ubuntu

I have a problem in installation Selenium in the web driver

Amit Jaggi

Dec 31, 2020 | 2 upvotes · 454.6K views

Needs advice

JUnit

NUnit

and

Selenium

We are looking for a Testing Tool that can integrate with Java/ React/ Go/ Python/ Node.js. Which amongst the three tools JUnit, NUnit & Selenium would be the best for this use case?

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Blog Posts

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Jul 24 2015 at 5:58AM

Tilt

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5552

How Gusto Processes Billions Of Dollars In Annual Payroll

Apr 17 2015 at 2:44AM

Gusto

+29

2994

Selenium Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Selenium?

Protractor

Protractor is an end-to-end test framework for Angular and AngularJS applications. Protractor runs tests against your application running in a real browser, interacting with it as a user would.

Cypress

Cypress is a front end automated testing application created for the modern web. Cypress is built on a new architecture and runs in the same run-loop as the application being tested. As a result Cypress provides better, faster, and more reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. Cypress works on any front-end framework or website.

Nightwatchjs

Nightwatch.js is an easy to use Node.js based End-to-End (E2E) testing solution for browser based apps and websites. It uses the powerful Selenium WebDriver API to perform commands and assertions on DOM elements.

Puppeteer

Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. It can also be configured to use full (non-headless) Chrome.

Cucumber

Cucumber is a tool that supports Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) - a software development process that aims to enhance software quality and reduce maintenance costs.

See all alternatives

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