Do people still use Selenium?

Well, there are no doubts about the fact that Selenium is popular. Although, like all other tools, Selenium also demands a lot of technical knowledge on the part of the tester as well as knowledge about using third-party tools, it still has been able to rule the market for quite a few years.

Why is Selenium used over other automation tools?

Selenium is a framework to conduct software testing. It is used mostly to test web applications. With selenium there is no need to write testing scripts, the software comes with easy navigation tools that can write test cases without the need for any script.

Why do Selenium tests fail?

Probably the single greatest cause of Selenium failures is when a selector moves or subtly changes on screen. When you add in the effect of even minor CSS styling changes, you can end up with tests failing to select the correct element even when no other functionality has changed.

What are challenges have you faced with Selenium and how did you overcome them?

Top 9 Challenges Faced In Selenium Automation

• Cross Browser Testing.
• Scalability.
• Synchronizing Events.
• Handling Dynamic Elements.
• False Positive and False Negative Results.
• Pop up and Alert Handling.
• Captcha or OTP Handling.
• Limited Reporting.

What is the advantages and disadvantages of selenium?

(Selenium automates Web browsers only, using Selenium we can automate Computer Web Applications and Mobile Web Apps, but Selenium doesn’t support Computer Desktop Applications, Mobile Native Applications and Mobile Hybrid Applications.) 3) Difficult to use, takes more time to create Test cases.

Why was selenium created?

Selenium was initially developed by Jason Huggins in 2004 while he was working as an Engineer in ThoughtsWork on a web application that requires frequent testing. He created the program using JavaScript, after using it he realized the shortcomings of manual testing and the need to curb monotony.

Why selenium is more widely used for automation testing?

Selenium is the most popularly used freeware and open source automation tool. The benefits of Selenium for Test Automation are immense. Importantly, it enables record and playback for testing web applications and can run multiple scripts across various browsers.

What are the reasons that sometimes a Testcase will work fine for 1 browser and fails for other browsers and how do you handle it?

In this article, we will explore some of the most common reasons cross browser test cases can fail….

• Lack of Testing on Real Devices.
• HTML/ CSS Validation.
• Vendor-specific functions.
• DOCTYPE Error.
• Outdated Browser Detection.
• Missing CSS Resets.
• Layout Compatibility.

Why Selenium tests are flaky?

Flakiness can be caused due to network slowness, DB slowness etc. The web driver may not support the jar files version, browser version is not compatible or the testing framework itself has some bugs, such issues might take a lot of time of the tester to identify the cause of the failure.

What all difficulties you have faced in selenium?

One of the top challenges faced in Selenium automation is the handling of dynamic web content. Selenium solves for it using the explicit wait feature, where you specify a pre-defined time for the automation testing process to wait for new content to load.

How does selenium handle sync issues?

An implicit wait makes WebDriver poll the DOM for a certain amount of time when trying to locate an element. Implicit Wait directs the Selenium WebDriver to wait for a certain measure of time before throwing an exception. Once this time is set, WebDriver will wait for the element before the exception occurs.

Why does selenium fail so often?

Probably the single greatest cause of Selenium failures is when a selector moves or subtly changes on screen. This is a real bugbear, especially with the growth of responsive applications where the screen layout dynamically changes with the screen size.

What are the limitations of selenium in software testing?

Though Selenium is an open source tool which supports multiple languages, browsers, OS and parallel test execution, but still there are certain limitations : We cannot test windows applications. We cannot test mobile applications. No reliable Technical Support from anybody as it is an open source.

What is the history of selenium testing?

Selenium originated in elder days – by which I mean 2004 – as a tool for testing web applications. It was developed by Jason Huggins, a programmer at ThoughtWorks. That Selenium originated at ThoughtWorks is interesting.

What happened to Selenium IDE?

Selenium IDE only ran on Firefox. With Firefox 55, Selenium IDE broke, and there seemed to be no motivation to fix it. Plenty of articles back then explained why Selenium IDE was bad.