Selenium Benefits
There are many benefits to choosing Selenium for functional web application testing. Selenium is mostly used to automate web-based Functional and Regression test cases.
Some of the benefits of Selenium are as follows:
Selenium is free of cost
Cross Platform
Selenium is cross-platform and supports multiple operating systems like:
- Windows
- Linux
- Mac OS
Selenium is cross-platform and supports multiple operating systems like Windows, Linux, and MacOS. It allows you to automate web browsers across different platforms seamlessly.
Selenium supports multiple programming languages. You can use many programming languages to code automation scripts:
- Python
- Java
- Ruby
- Perl
- C#
- JavaScript
Selenium can be used to test web applications on multiple browsers. It is an excellent cross-browser testing tool. It supports the following browsers:
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
- Microsoft Edge
- Opera
- Safari
- IE
Selenium has procedures for locating the DOM, CSS, and XPath elements.
It has no formal support since it is an open-source tool. But there is community for Selenium that offers support. Selenium has an excellent and active user support community.