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.
Selenium is an open-source, automated testing tool used to test web applications across various browsers. Selenium can only test web applications, unfortunately, so desktop and mobile apps can’t be tested. However, other tools like Appium and HP’s QTP can be used to test software and mobile applications.?
- Selenium is easy to use since it’s primarily developed in JavaScript
- Selenium can test web applications against various browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari?
- Tests can be coded in several programming languages like Java, Python, Perl, PHP, and Ruby?
- Selenium is platform-independent, meaning it can deploy on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh?
- Selenium can be integrated with tools like JUnit and TestNG for test management.Selenium IDE has a few shortcomings:?
- It does not support data-driven testing?
- It can’t perform database testing
- It can’t provide a detailed test report
- It can’t export to WebDriver scripts?
