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What are the main disadvantages of Selenium?

Category: Selenium WebDriver
  • Selenium does not provide desktop application automation support.
  • Web Services – REST or SOAP cannot be automated using selenium.
  • Selenium WebDriver requires programming language requirement for script creation.
  • No vendor support for tool compared to commercial tools like HP UFT
  • As there is no object repository concept in Selenium, maintainability of objects becomes difficult
  • For performing common tasks required in automation like logging, reading-writing to external files we have to rely on external libraries

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