Drawback or Limitations of Selenium

Drawback or Limitations of Selenium

Followings are the Drawback or limitations of Selenium:-

Drawback /Limitations	Description
Desktop applications cannot be automated by Selenium.	To test the desktop application, we have tools like Test Complete, Winnium, and QTP/UFT, etc.
Mobile applications cannot be automated by Selenium.	For mobile applications, Appium is the best tool to automate.
Technical skills are required toautomate the test cases in Selenium.	Test engineers should have to know any of the programming languages like Java, Python, C#, Ruby, JavaScript, etc. to create useful automated tests script.
Built-in Object Repository is not there in Selenium for maintaining the objects at a centralized location.	QTP/UFT is the tool which has this feature.
For automating Web Services like Soap or Rest Selenium is not used.	We have other tools like Rest Assured Framework, Apache HTTP Client and, SoapUI, etc. to automate web Service.
The capability to test the images does not support bySelenium.	To perform Image-Base Testing , Selenium integrates with tools like Sikuli.
By default, selenium does not have reporting capability.	To get the reporting feature, Selenium has to integrate with TestNG, Extent Reports, etc.
Window Based pop-ups which appear while we are working with the Web-based application functionalities like upload File etc. cannot handle by Selenium.	To handle Window Based pop-ups, Selenium integrates with tools like AutoIt.
Selenium cannot automate the Captcha code.	The best way to test the captcha code is to ask the development team to disable them or make them static.
Video Streaming cannot be automated by Selenium.	The content which is playing inside the video can’t be tested by selenium.
For creating and executing the test scripts, selenium does not have its IDE.	Selenium needs other IDEs like Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ, etc.
There is no vendor or official support, as Selenium is an Open Source and free tool.	While other tools like QTP/UFT, HP Company provides official support.
In Selenium, we have to configure each and everything on our own like creating test environments or test scripts in Selenium.	While tools like QTP/UFT, Test Complete, etc. have their inbuilt features to develop everything.
To automate Performance testing , Selenium is not an effective solution.	We have specific tools like JMeter, Load Runner, etc. are useful in performance testing.

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