Expose a Common Lie, “Selenium is Flaky”, Part 1: Selenium WebDriver is much more reliable than others.

Don’t be fooled by fake automated testers and evil vendors’ marketing teams. On reliability, Selenium WebDriver is much better than any other web test automation framework.

Update (2023–02–02): Part 2 Clarify ‘automated waiting’ is available.

Today, I saw two articles about Selenium, with the lie “Selenium is Flaky”.

Terminology: “Flaky” is just another word for “non-deterministic”.

“Love-Hate Relationship with Selenium Automation

tests written with Selenium can be prone to flakiness and unreliability due to the unpredictable behavior of different browsers.”

“Selenium advantages and disadvantages

3. Flaky tests: Tests written with Selenium can sometimes be flaky, meaning they may fail randomly due to issues such as elements on the page loading slowly or network instability.”

In this article, I will expose this common lie with facts!

Table of Contents:
· Selenium is super reliable, not flaky at all!
∘ A story of…