It’s an ecosystem of many things put together. Selenium is part of it. Let us look at the essential elements:
Multiple automation testing tools (Selenium, Appium, etc.) to write test scripts
Modular, scalable and disciplined framework to reduce scripting & maintenance efforts
On-demand and scalable test lab with test machines of different configurations
Comprehensive and dynamic reports for stakeholders at different levels
Test management to understand the automation coverage and traceability
Enterprise-class test data management to increase the test coverage
Shared object repositories. Reusability to increase the maintainability of tests
Test planning and designing capabilities to optimize the efforts and organize test asserts
Integrations with CI/CD tools to automate your continuous delivery pipelines
Integrations with bug tracking tools to automate bug isolation
Integrations with collaboration tools to stay up to date with the results and progress
Integrations with project management/test management tools for better traceability
Integrations with external test labs on-demand to increase the test coverage
These are not new challenges we will be solving every project. We need all the above
set up for
any automation process.
Here's how Testsigma compares with Selenium.
Due to multiple tools, setting up the framework, integrations with other tools, and high ramp-up time
Ready for continuous or agile testing with the shift-left approach. No setup, coding knowledge, and ramp-up time required.
Takes lots of time to create scalable, reliable, and maintainable tests due to involved programming efforts.
Simple English based test development, best in class reusability features let you automate tests at least 5X faster. No coding skills required.
Requires huge time, efforts and cost to set up a test infrastructure which can scale up and down based on your requirements
SCloud based Testsigma Lab lets you access thousands of test machines and devices to run tests in parallel.
Due to cryptic results and programming efforts needed it takes lots of time to maintain the tests continuously for every change in the application.
AI auto-heals your tests, creates test plans automatically on code changes, and identifies possible failures upfront.
Modern applications undergo changes very frequently, but it takes a very long time and resources to change your tests accordingly.
With auto-healing, identifying affected resources features and Intuitive UI can change your scripts quickly and effortlessly.
Due to slow test development, continuous maintenance efforts, and lack of a unified platform for all types of apps it takes years to achieve significant test coverage.
Simple English based test authoring with AI-driven maintenance and a unified platform for end-to-end testing increases test coverage faster.
Huge initial time & cost, dedicated team, slow test development, and high maintenance means longer payback time.
Continuous testing ready from day one, you can start seeing ROI from day one instead of months and years.
Due to the level of programming needed, only the developers and automation teams can understand the tests.
Test creation in Testsigma is as simple as writing the test steps in simple English. Can be done by testers and non-technical members in your current team.
Due to the technical barrier,you can’t let everyone automate your testing, that’s against your DevOps principles.
With Testsigma’s simple English based test creation even the non-technical members of your team can write tests after little training.
Cryptic results require experts to analyze & isolate true failures, leaving out false detections and duplicates.
Doesn’t require experts to analyze and isolate true failures. Readable and actionable results let everyone take immediate action.
With the Selenium approach, there would be very less or no collaboration between manual & automation engineers resulting in duplicate efforts.
With Testsigma, both manual and automation engineers can collaborate on the same platforms to avoid any possible redundant efforts.
Shift left/continuous testing requires not just UI automation, but support for API, other application types like iOS, Android, etc.
Shift left/continuous testing support not just for UI automation, but also for API, iOS, Android, Database and many other applications.
As the test cases are written in programming languages, the non-technical members cannot be involved in review of the automated test cases.
Everyone on the team and clients can be involved in the review of automated test cases to keep the test development in line with business requirements at all times
As discussed earlier the selenium framework has to be an integral part of the testing ecosystem. Need continuous efforts to integrate with other tools.
Testsigma readily integrates with all the project management, bug tracking, collaboration tools and tools for CI/CD workflow and test management.
You may either scour the forum for an appropriate solution mentioned somewhere or you add a question and wait for an indefinite amount of time for an answer. Only a forum for help will always require more time and effort.
Our support team will be there to guide you from onboarding to first tests to solving any problems - to help you achieve your goals, any time of the day.
No lagging behind Development. Testsigma lets you create automated tests within the sprint!
Testsigma is built for everyone on your team to write automated tests using simple English via NLP.
With Testsigma’s unified test development approach, all team members can take part in the test automation process - create them and review them. Thus, now you can achieve better test coverage faster.
In addition to end-to-end functional testing capabilities, Testsigma supports tracking of every pixel of your application via Visual Testing to make your applications perfect visually.
You can slice and dice the execution results to create custom reports for all the stakeholders at different levels.
Start writing test cases right from the design phase. Helps you reduce the time between dev complete and testing complete significantly.
Avoids possible duplicate efforts, helps you understand the coverage across manual and automation processes to make better release decisions faster.
Supports automation for Web Applications, Mobile Web Applications, Android Apps, iOS Apps, API testing, Database testing, and many more.
Requirements mapping, preconditions, reviews, assign to users, and many more for better traceability. Also, track the productivity of your team.
Supports multiple internal and external data sources, makes end-to-end test data management easy and helps keep test coverage high.
With the main focus on maintainability and stability, tests written in Testsigma are more stable and reliable than Selenium-based scripts.
Integrations with CI/CD tools, collaboration tools, bug tracking tools, project management tools, cloud based test labs and APIs to integrate with other custom tools.
Plan, design, develop, execute, analyze, and report. No setup, ramp-up time
required. Get started with your
continuous testing now!
Yes, Selenium is an open-source tool. But, it isn't really free.
There are a few hidden costs that many teams overlook.
.. there may be more based on your testing requirements.
Considering all these costs you can save at least 80% of your costs if you choose a better test automation platform.
Talk to our experts to understand how much time and cost you can save using Testsigma compared to Selenium. Check out Why Testsigma is better than other automated testing tools.