disadvantages of using selenium
Selenium supports testing of only web-based applications
Mobile applications cannot be tested using Selenium
Captcha and Barcode readers cannot be tested using Selenium
Reports can only be generated using third-party tools like TestNG or JUnit.
As Selenium is a free tool, thus there is no ready vendor support through the
user can find numerous helping communities.
The user is expected to possess prior programming language knowledge.
ADVANTAGES
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Selenium is a suite of tools for automated web testing.
Selenium is open source and free to use without any licensing cost
It supports multiple languages like Java, Ruby, Python, C#...
It supports multi browser testing
It has a good amount of resources and helping community
It supports many operating systems like Windows, Mac, Linux ...
Interact with the web application
DISADVANTAGES
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Selenium supports testing of only web-based applications
Mobile applications cannot be tested using Selenium
Captcha and Barcode readers cannot be tested using Selenium
Reports can only be generated using third-party tools like TestNG or JUnit.
As Selenium is a free tool, thus there is no ready vendor support through the
user can find numerous helping communities.
The user is expected to possess prior programming language knowledge.