Selenium Critique

Question

I just wanted some opinions from people that have run Selenium (http://selenium.openqa.org) I have had a lot of experience with WaTiN and even wrote a recording suite for it. I

Answer 1

Selenium is pretty decent tool but there are couple things to watch out:

• Selenium IDE and Selenium core do not share 100% same functionality. For example right clicking is supported by IDE but current core release does not have it. However, using a newer version from their repository solves that.

• In case of ext js, gwt etc make sure you have proper IDs for your display elements instead of automatically generated (random) ones.

• Maintaining test cases. I have seen cases where a lot of effort was put on Selenium tests and good coverage. Later on tests started to fail as the person creating them was busy with other tasks and no-one else wanted to touch them. But this was issue with management, not Selenium.