Three Big Fat Lies about Selenium WebDriver: “Not Reliable”, “Hard to Learn”, and “No Enterprise-Level Support”

Selenium is the best web automation framework, better than others in every aspect. Everyone who failed with Selenium I met was a fake automated tester.

I have seen many articles/posts with lies about Selenium WebDriver, the best web automation framework. Lisa Crispin, the author of the classic Agile Testing book, observed that too, and those bad sales/marketing people made her “so angry”.

Lias Crispin (author of Agile Testing book)’s comment on bad marketing against Selenium.

In my opinion, the two motives for those evil lies:

• deliberately for commercial reasons.
• from fake automated testers, who do not understand test automation at all.

This article will crush these lies one by one with proof.

∘ Lie 1: “Selenium is not reliable”
∘ Lie 2: “Selenium lacks enterprise-level support”
∘ Lie 3: “Selenium syntax is not as good as X, and it is hard to learn.”
∘ Why can a ten-year-old learn Selenium so quickly?
∘ Summary