Table of contents What is Selenium? Selenium Webdriver Selenium Grid Selenide Evaluating the frameworks based on our requirements Skillset available in the company Learning curve Ease of use Cross-browser and platform support Integration with cloud testing services CI/CD integration License cost Detailed reports Result Final words is not an easy task. You have to based on your company's needs: Choosing a UI automation framework consider many factors Skillset available in the company Learning curve Ease of use Cross-browser and platform support Integration with cloud testing services CI/CD integration License cost Detailed reports Back then my fellow colleagues evaluated multiple frameworks and they narrowed down the choice to Selenium and Selenide. So the question is which framework to use? I won't waste your time, so I quickly answer the question: . Thanks for reading. 😊 both ….. Joking aside, if you are interested in the whys, please continue reading. In this first article let's look at both one by one so I can give a little bit more detailed answer to our question. What is Selenium? Selenium is an project consisting of different It is widely used in test automation, but it is not limited only to testing. Its main components are , Selenium RC, Selenium IDE (record and playback), and . I won't talk about Selenium RC which is the predecessor of Selenium WebDriver, if you would like to read about it, you can find information . I am also skipping Selenium IDE which is a simple record and playback tool. Based on my experience it is only useful for people who are beginners in software development or in case you are not that familiar with the DOM. In case you are still interested have a look at . open-source tools for automating web browsers supporting many browsers across many platforms. Selenium WebDriver Selenium Grid here this page Selenium Webdriver It is a collection of , as a real user would do. The supported languages include J . The WebDriver can run either locally or remotely (using Selenium Grid). language-specific bindings to drive a browser natively ava, C#, Kotlin, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, and PHP but you cannot automate native apps, for that purpose you can use . In case you are interested in Appium, I highly recommend 's Udemy course. Selenium can only automate webpages Appium Rahul Shetty In case you are interested in Selenium WebDriver programming using Java language, 's course on , I personally . I highly recommend Rahul Shetty Udemy learnt a lot from that I also following the course, so you can start Selenium development in no time with it. It is available on . For Selenide I cannot recommend a good course yet, but that is the main reason why I started to write this article series. developed a Cucumber-based Selenium framework GitHub Selenium Grid Using Selenium Grid . The latest version is Selenium Grid 4 which has a completely new codebase compared to its previous versions. you can run tests parallelly across multiple machines both virtual and physical ones Using Grid you can build your own infrastructure, but there are many sites that provide Selenium grid services. One of them is which supports more than 3000 real devices and browsers. Browserstack Selenide Let's talk about . So what is Selenide? Selenide is an framework built on top of Selenium WebDriver whose main purpose is to . As it is it also means we get the and lets' see what else we get in : Selenide open-source make test automation simple based on Selenium WebDriver full feature set of it addition It has a for tests, so you will have a . fluent API more concise and readable code It supports , so you will have much less trouble with handling timeouts, so . Ajax you can write more stable tests In addition to the Selenium selectors, you have more advanced selectors which make finding elements easy. Provides easy ways to download files. Provides methods to navigate between parent and child elements. It is as it is using sensible defaults, so you don't have to mess with WebDriver, but of course, you can if you want. very easy to configure Selenide providing also the link, even during running on Jenkins, so you can identify the problem more easily. automatically takes screenshots on failing tests It has a . built-in Profiler Sending keys to elements is quite slow using Selenium, as it is sending keys one by one. . Selenide provides a javascript based method which is a much faster way to send keys Provides detailed error messages even logging the HTML source belonging to the element, so it makes debugging much easier. , even if you have hundreds of Selenium tests, as the Selenium tests are completely compatible with Selenide. Switching to Selenide from Selenium is easy That is the basic information we need about the frameworks, so let's continue with comparing them. Evaluating the frameworks based on our requirements Skillset available in the company Our team has a strong Java background so seems to be a reasonable choice as it Selenium supports many programming languages including Java. , but as we have the Java background For us, the standing is Selenide is limited to Java and other JVM based languages Selenide is as good for us as Selenium. Selenium:Selenide 1:1. Learning curve For Selenium, you can find tons of materials on the internet: video courses, tutorials, articles. In case you have a strong Java background and you are familiar with the DOM then . As it is open-source you can also check the source code anytime. learning Selenium is quite easy Selenide has , but it has many examples available on . I have not found any video course on the topic, but of course, articles are available. Stackoverflow has a few hundred questions related to Selenide in comparison Selenium has almost 100000. Despite this, easy (especially in case you are already familiar with Selenium). It is also open-source, so you have the option to skim through the code if you want. quite short documentation GitHub learning Selenide is also However many of the problems you encounter during Selenide development can be answered by the materials belonging to Selenium (as Selenide is based on Selenium WebDriver) it is still a win for Selenium: 2:1. Ease of use In case you look back at the Selenide introduction section you can see the list of topics in which . This is a Selenide excels in comparison to Selenium huge win for Selenide: 2:2. Cross-browser and platform support Both frameworks have the It is same browser and platform support. equal: 3:3. Integration with cloud testing services Both Selenium and Selenide can , so it is . The standing is . integrate with Browserstack equal again 4:4 CI/CD integration and the can be told . At our company, we use GitLab which has its own CI/CD tool and I can tell Selenide works well with it: Selenium integrates well with Jenkins same about Selenide 5:5. License cost Both of them are free software: 6:6. Detailed reports , but you can easily integrate them with testing frameworks like . With those frameworks, you . In addition to this with which you can generate reports which include the execution time of every action in milliseconds. Based on this you can better understand where your tests are spending their time and where can you improve your tests. With the profiler, it is Neither Selenium nor Selenide has built-in reporting JUnit or TestNG can generate the needed reports Selenide has a profiler another point for Selenide. Result So the final result is to Selenide. Of course, you , as all of the t depending on your team's need. Taking into consideration the which makes development easier, and we did not regret our decision. Selenide is quite an active project, having multiple releases per month, 6:7 cannot decide just on the result factors have a different weigh extra features of Selenide we decided to go with it I highly recommend giving it a try. Final words This is the first introduction article of a series I will write about test automation using Selenide. I am pretty sure you are eager to see some code, so in the next article we will jumpstart Selenide development. In case you are interested in the management side of quality assurance in an agile environment, then I recommend reading written by my colleagues and . this article Ákos Piltmann István Szarka To close the article, I leave you a question here: What is your number one UI automation framework? 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