disadvantages and advantages of selenium
LET ME START WITH ADVANTAGES OF SELENIUM
- Selenium is a set of libraries that help us
automate and interact with the browsers.
First of all it is an
- OPEN SOURCE tool -> FREE
- It supports different types of browsers
- It supports multiple different programming languages
- Huge community behind it so many answers to any problems/questions
- Could run on different OS systems such as: Mac, Windows, Linux etc.
DISADVANTAGES
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-Selenium supports testing of only web-based applications
-Mobile applications cannot be tested with Selenium
-Captcha and Barcode cannot be tested aswell
-Reports can only be generated using
third-party tools like TestNG or JUnit.
-Since it is a free tool, there is not vendor
support but still there are many communities to get help.
-The user is expected to know
prior programming language knowledge.