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Here are some Advantages of Selenium Tool:
- It is open source
- It has no upfront, out-of-pocket costs, so it is free
- It can run under multiple browsers
- Selenium scripts are created by recording actions using the web application under test running in a browser which is much useful attribute for testers and testing environment.
- It does not bind QA’s choice of build systems, reporting tools or any other aspect of their testing framework.
- It integrates well with popular testing tools such as Hudson, Sauce Labs, Selenium-Grid, Q Metry, and others.
- Supports web applications that implement a part of their functionality within the browser using JavaScript and AJAX technologies.
- Selenium supports various programming languages to write programs.
- Selenium supports Parallel Test Execution.
- Selenium uses less Hardware resources.
Disadvantages of Selenium Tool –
Here are some of the disadvantages.
- No Built-in Reporting facility.
- No Test Tool integration for Test Management.
- New features may not work properly.
- Limited support for Image Testing.
- Difficult to Setup Test Environment when it compares to Vendor Tools like UFT, RFT, Silk Test, etc…
- Difficult to use takes more time to create Test cases.
- It supports Web-based applications only.
- No reliable Technical Support from anybody.
After getting through this much knowledge about the selenium tool I can say that till the time it is free and open-source for a web developer, it is the best and most effective testing tool available in the market for testing web or mobile-based user interfaces you will learn in selenium certification .
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