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What are the drawbacks of Selenium WebDriver?
Some of the prominent drawbacks of Selenium are listed below −
Has assistance for only web oriented applications.
Time consuming to configure the environment unlike the paid tools like UFT.
Has no features provided by Test Management tools like ALM or UFT.
New characteristics introduced in Selenium, sometimes do not work as expected.
Has no in-built test report generation. It has to be integrated with TestNG/JUnit for reports.
Cannot be integrated with Test Management tools like ALM or UFT.
Cannot be used for verifying images.
Has no record and play feature, hence building a test script needs considerable time and effort.
Cannot be used for verifying mobile applications. We can use the Appium tool which is based on the WebDriver conventions.
Tricky to handle web elements which have dynamic attribute values, each time the page is loaded.
Cannot be used for verifying captcha.
Tricky to handle issues during page load, proper sync between the application and the tool, and so on.
Cannot be used for verifying audio and video.
Cannot be used for verifying fingerprints.
Requires a fair amount of programming know-how in order to start with test script development.
Has no direct technical assistance. We have to depend on communities and forums to solve queries.
Cannot be used for automating web services like REST/SOAP.
As the framework built on Selenium gradually grows in volume, it is cumbersome to maintain.