What are the limitations of Selenium?
Experience Level: Senior
Tags: Quality Assurance (QA)Selenium
Answer
Selenium is quie powerful for testing on-line applications. Before you start using it is good to know where it's not that good.
- Windows applications cannot be tested
- Native mobile applications cannot be tested
- Reporting is limited and needs to be built manually
- Handling dynamic elements
- Handling pop up windows
- Handling page load
- Handling captcha
- It is tricky to implement data-driven testing
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