Common Challenges In Selenium

In this era of modernization, technology is growing at a high rocketing speed that makes it so tough to update ourselves parallel to the demands of the market. As far as the testing tools are concerned, Selenium is considered as the King of the automation. If you have not dealt with Selenium in your career, then you might not be aware of the difficulties that it brings for a QA. No doubt, it brings ease in testing web applications and websites but testers as well as developers encounter several challenges while using it. In this context, we are going to specify the challenges that a tester can face while using the Selenium. No matter how long you have been working as a QA, the below context will make the things pebble free for you. 

Identifying Dynamic Elements 

Several websites and web applications may contain web pages that do not appear when you visit the website for the first time. Moreover, it makes the web pages user-specific that shows different data to the user as per the requirements. Let's say the ID of an element is getting changed on every page load then how such a scenario should be handled. In such instances, we can use dynamic elements along with the functions, such as ends with, contains, start with, etc to deal with the dynamic objects.

Timeout Issue

Also known as sync issue, it is one of the most common challenges that appear in Selenium where most of the time the script might get fail. Though it can be avoided by the help of smart waits like implicit wait, Fluent wait, even we can also write our custom methods to get rid of the same.

Cross-browser Testing 

Selenium is majorly used for automation of web apps and cross-browser testing since it supports multiple languages and various operating systems. While operating for cross-browser testing, many times elements of the web apps work in one browser but not in other ones. To avoid the same, we need to run the script again and again on different browsers along with the analysis of the results. In case, if it fails on any platform, different locator strategy can do the work in our favor.

Mobile Application Testing 

When it comes to testing the web apps and website, Selenium can be the best choice to go with but it can't help you in the case of mobile application testing. It does not work with Android and iOS. For example, The version of Facebook that you run on the Mac system on the Safari browser can be tested via the Selenium but the same is not possible with the mobile safari browser via the iPhone or Android one. To deal with the same, Appium can be the best option to choose.

No doubt, Selenium is the one-stop solution for all your tasks but everything that has benefits may comes with few limitations as well. In the above context, we have mentioned the challenges that a QA may face along with the solutions to overcome these challenges.

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