18 engineers on Hacker News describe using Selenium first-hand: 2 endorse it, 6 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“we were not able to maintain them in 3- 4 weeks because we had other responsibilities, and our Selenium test cases soon went to trash.”
regret · production · mesadb · 2021-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we have to paper over all of the crufty Webdriver/Selenium abstractions that feel like they were designed for Java.”
regret · production · jitl · 2020-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Honestly 80% of issues we had with that were 'unstable' tests.”
regret · production · Cthulhu_ · 2020-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched away from selenium to puppeteer a year ago due to reliability issues with the former.”
regret · production · dbjorge · 2020-05-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We used to use Selenium + Firefox for the checkout processes (run manually), but it was too much maintenance overhead so we switched to requests+lxml.”
regret · production · danpalmer · 2017-07-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched over the Selenium webdriver for PhantomJS and found it to be much more stable and fast.”
endorse · personal · killahpriest · 2013-05-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we then moved to using selenium, but they all suffered from that same problem of incredibly fragile tests.”
regret · production · akeefer · 2011-05-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Capybara with the Selenium driver with more success lately.”
endorse · personal · sleight42 · 2010-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched from cypress to capybara+selenium.”
neutral · production · jemmyw · 2023-10-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Had a little trouble integrating Selenium and webDriver using BashOperators that run individual Python scripts”
neutral · personal · arthurcolle · 2020-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use the Selenium protocol for this, not yet Puppeteer.”
neutral · production · defied · 2018-08-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started my career writing selenium test in clojure”
neutral · production · a-saleh · 2016-04-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use selenium instead of jasmine these days.”
neutral · production · Joeri · 2015-07-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use the remote Browserstack Selenium hosting service so that the tests can be executed automatically as a part of our deployment process.”
neutral · production · jmickey · 2015-07-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Cucumber, Selenium, and also use TDD tools like RSpec and minitest/spec, and minitest/benchmark.”
neutral · production · jph · 2012-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At my work, we use Selenium for writing automated functional tests.”
neutral · production · karterk · 2010-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At Sauce Labs, we use a combination of the Selenium API for taking screenshots and Castro for recording movies of browser pages.”
neutral · production · hugs · 2010-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Most of my code coverage is more like automated QA tests through Cucumber / Capybara / Selenium in Ruby.”
neutral · production · joshcrews · 2010-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?