Overview
Let’s have a brief look at the advantages and disadvantages of the Selenium automation tool.
Advantages
Some of the advantages of the Selenium tool are:
- The mani advantage of Selenium is that it is an open-source tool and free to use.
- Selenium supports many languages like Java, Python, Ruby, C#, etc.
- Selenium support multiple browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc.
- Selenium support multiple operating systems like Windows, Linux, etc.
- Selenium can be integrated with frameworks and other tools like TestNG, JUnit, JBehave, Cucumber, etc.
Disadvantages
Some of the disadvantages of Selenium tool are:
- Selenium can only be used for Web application automation. Selenium cannot be used to automate desktop applications.
- Selenium doesn’t have in-built test reporting. We have to rely upon or integrate Maven plugins for test reporting.
- Selenium being open-source doesn’t have a dedicated support channel for the tool 24/7 like many other licensed automation tools.