Selenium WebDriver

Selenium WebDriver is the most widely accepted testing framework for web applications. It can be used for performing automated cross-browser testing in a thorough manner. It is also open-source, and can be also used for programming languages other than JavaScript.

Some of the main pros for Selenium include:

• The IDE is open source, so it can be easily learned and improved upon by new and inexperienced testers
• It has been around for a long time, so it has a big community and a lot of documentation
• It has its own language, but it also offers language bindings to support coding in Java, JavaScript, PHP, etc.

The pros of Selenium highly outweigh the cons and the fact that it comes free of cost makes it a preferred tool by many organizations. However, these are some of the cons to consider that may help you decide whether it is the right framework for you:

• For getting advantage of the complete features of Selenium, you will require some third-party plugins
• You cannot perform parallel testing with Selenium WebDriver
• The framework is open source and supported by a community, you will not get an instant solution to any of your problems