Software Testing and Quality Assurance

Selenium is a portable and popular open-source software-testing framework for web applications. It provides a playback tool for authoring tests without the necessity to acquire knowledge of a test scripting language (Selenium IDE). Selenium also provides a test domain-specific language (Selenese) to write tests in several popular programming languages, including Scala, Groovy, Java, Ruby, C#, PHP, Python, and Perl. The tests can then run against the current and newest web browsers. Selenium deploys on Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms.  Selenium is composed of respective components with specific role assists the web application test automation development: 1. Selenium Grid 2. Selenium IDE (Integrated Development Environment) 3. Selenium WebDriver 4. Selenium RC (Remote Control) Today, users access sites and web applications on different platforms, devices, and browsers. Organizations demand robust test automation tools to assess all aspects of their web applications across varied...

Undoubtedly, Selenium has made web testing far simpler for many QA teams and enterprises worldwide, but it has a fair share of challenges. That being said, most of such issues testers encounter have quite clear-cut solutions, which is why we have summarized some of the common Selenium automation testing challenges, along with their solution. Let’s get started! Selenium Automation Testing Challenges & Solutions Mobile Application Testing Reporting Pop-up Windows and Alerts Page load Scalability Desktop Application Testing 1. Mobile Application Testing When using  Selenium , we can create  automated test cases  on any operating system and browser on desktop, however, we cannot perform mobile tests with Selenium simultaneously. Solution :  You can make use of tools like  Appium mobile app automation tool  to handle iOS and Android applications utilizing the WebDriver protocol. As more and more users are opting for mobile devices, it’s no surprise that test...