What are the Selenium Tool Limitations?
What are the Selenium Tool Limitations?
The major limitation of the Selenium testing tool is its inability to natively support mobile and desktop application testing. While Selenium is highly effective for web applications, it does not provide built-in features for testing mobile apps directly. This often requires the use of additional tools, such as Appium, to bridge that gap.
Let’s go through some of the limitations of the Selenium tool framework.
Selenium Limitations
No Support for Mobile and Desktop
One of the major limitations of the Selenium tool is that it only supports Web application automation. We can only automate what we can do in a browser using Selenium. It can not be used to automate Desktop applications.
No Dedicated Support
Dedicated Support for the tool. The tool being open-source, it doesn’t have a dedicated support channel. Automation engineer has to search online for help or support.
Reporting capabilities
Selenium lacks built-in reporting capabilities, necessitating third-party tools for generating reports. You have to rely on other frameworks to build test reports for automation.
Programming Knowledge
Test engineers need a degree of programming knowledge to code automation tests using Selenium. The tool has a learning curve and new test engineers take time to work on the Selenium automation.
Limited Support for Captcha
We cannot automate pages that use Captchas or other complex user interactions using Selenium.
