Question

What are the Challenges you faced in Selenium automation?

Answer 1

Coordinating Events

One of the main causes of our automation script failures is sync problems. When we anticipate an event happening, the sync problems could appear. But for some reason, it can take longer or not happen at all, which makes our test case fail even worse. For instance, when we run an automation script and the page first loads, we anticipate a "accept/decline cookies" message to appear; however, for some reason, it was delayed or did not even appear. It is because of this kind of synchronisation that our test script fails.

Scalability

Test scalability is the main issue with automation. Testing across many browsers, operating systems, and resolutions is important, as was mentioned in the preceding paragraph. Selenium WebDriver gives us the ability to run tests sequentially but does not provide a useful method for cross-browser testing. The number of features in the application being tested may increase over time, necessitating the creation of new test cases. Running several test cases consecutively may also become problematic.

Handling of captcha or OTP

As far as we are aware, since the values of Captcha and OTP are always changing, neither can be expected nor predicted. Automation testers find it difficult to automate services like payment gateways and new user registrations where Captcha and OTP are necessary. This might also be seen as evidence that no application can ever be fully automated and that manual testing will always be necessary.

Low-Volume Reporting

In the testing phase, reporting is quite important. A bridge between developers and testers is created by test reports. Selenium does not currently offer many reporting features. Automation testers biggest issue is creating and updating reports. For our superior code designs and reporting, we typically use frameworks that are based on programming languages.