Re: [selenium-users] why selenium

[Paul Hammant]

QTP is $15,000 per seat. Agile teams want everyone, devs included, to be able to run tests on their own desktops.  

Selenium also doesn't ship with its own SCM - it works with the team's choice of SCM tools, including the branching strategy.

Selenium works from just about every programming language - it does not force another set of learnings for an arcane language.

It also works on Linux, and Mac (not just windows).

Handheld browsers are working too (or in our sights).

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:24 AM, musaffi <musa...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Everyone.

Greetings!
Can you guys let me know why selenium is being considered as one of the hot automation tool in the market ? i know it is an open source ...apart from this what else you can think of ?

Thanks & Warm Regards,
Musafir

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[Darrell Grainger]

Being open source is a large part of its appeal. I've been using automation tools for 14 years now. All tools tend to have issues at some point. The first commercial tool I used had an issue which blocked automated testing. We shipped the application in 3 months. I submitted a bug to the automation tool company. I followed up a few times while we were trying to get the application out the door. Mean while I used a second automation tool to automate the tests the first tool could not. The next reply from the company I received, 5 months later, was from sales to see if I wanted to renew my support package and seat licenses. I still hadn't heard from support about the ticket I filed.

When I have a problem with Selenium I file a ticket and hack the source code to work around the issue. Having the source code gives me the flexibility to do this.

In addition to that, there are few web automation tools which support multiple languages (Java, C#, Ruby, Python, php and Perl), support multiple browsers including mobile devices (Firefox, IE, Safari, Chrome, Android, HTMLUnit, and iPhone). It runs on multiple operating systems (Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X).

The cost is hard to beat as well. Additionally, you get people who are passionate about test automation using tools like Selenium. The support from this community is usually a LOT better than the support from commercial tools and, again, it is free.

Now if you don't have staff who program, it might be worth investing in commercial tools like QTP. Which is why QTP is still going strong.

Darrell

P.S. there are downsides to Selenium as well. ;)