Selenium vs. TestComplete

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Selenium	Score8.1 out of 10	N/A	Selenium is open source software for browser automation, primarily used for functional, load, or performance testing of applications.	N/A
TestComplete	Score8 out of 10	N/A	TestComplete is a GUI test automation tool that enables users of all skill levels to test the UI of every desktop, web, and mobile application. TestComplete is best suited for testers, automation engineers, and QA teams in any industry.	$2,256 per license

Pay for only the modules needed. TestComplete Pro includes all three modules: desktop, web, and mobile, at a bundled price point, as well as access to the parallel testing engine, TestExecute. TestComplete has additional add-ons, including TestExecute and the Intelligent Quality Add-On.

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	Selenium	TestComplete
Considered Both Products	Open Source Trung Truong Automation Engineer in Quality Assurance at FPT (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Selenium TestComplete is more like an enterprise automation testing tool, that consists of many built-in functions. The license is rather expensive https://smartbear.com/product/testcomplete/pricing/. TestComplete's user community is not as large as Selenium user. Smartbear's … Incentivized Helpful? Donny DeLeon QA Lead Automation/Performance Engineer in Quality Assurance at AFEX (Financial Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Selenium In the end we did not select Selenium. For a company that is well established it is best to spend a little extra cash and get the support that a paid company offers. If something goes wrong you can easily contact them. Selenium does not offer that although there are third-party … Incentivized Helpful? Payam Pirooznia Senior Automation Test Engineer in Quality Assurance at ViaSat Inc. (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Selenium HQ UFT, it is one of the best and has more abilities but it is too much expensive while Selenium is free. SmartBear TestComplete, same reason as UFT. Watir, it is a Selenium-like open source project but has less features and limited documentation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Selenium It is one of the leading open source tools with lot of good features to go well with web automation. Incentivized Helpful?	SmartBear Verified User Chose TestComplete We used before the Coded UI Tests which are in Visual Studio / Azure DevOps, and the tests were impossible to maintain and very very flaky. Then in 2015, we selected TestComplete, as it was clearly the tool with the most feature for desktop UI testing. Selenium was … Incentivized Helpful? Ben Fishel-Brown Test Automation & Security Team Lead in Research & Development at Automated Logic Corporation (Architecture & Planning, 501-1000 employees) Chose TestComplete We aren't 100% sure that we will stick with TestComplete for our web-based UI testing for the long haul because Selenium is a bit lighter on the overhead front, but we definitely really like it for testing our standalone applications and utilities. As far as a complete testing … Incentivized Helpful? Gagneet Singh QA Consultant in Information Technology at WealthO2 (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose TestComplete UFT, TOSCA, and open-source Selenium/Cucumber based. The ease of use with TestComplete is comparable to TOSCA, but it is a lot cheaper and allows for a better ROI. UFT is better at recognizing elements and different technologies based on Java. TestComplete is easier to set up … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose TestComplete Selenium gets a lot of mileage for being opensource and free, but in terms of features, ease of use, and the added support and development structure of an enterprise product, TestComplete is the clean cut winner. Incentivized Helpful? Suhas Kashyap Senior Test Engineer in Quality Assurance at L&T Technology Services Limited (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose TestComplete Previously I was working on Selenium with Java for automating the test cases/scenarios and to perform regression testing in web applications. And for the last few months, I have been working with TestComplete on automating desktop and web applications. And I like the name … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose TestComplete TestComplete is easy to set up and allows you to map certain objects with it's play and record feature. We can then convert that to scripts and use those scripts to update other existing scripts if the Xpath is not being read properly. We compared it to Selenium, which you have … Incentivized Helpful? Yury Vakhatov Test Automation Engineer in Information Technology at ABLV Bank (Banking, 501-1000 employees) Chose TestComplete Selenium provides the best speed of testing. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose TestComplete TestComplete stacks up against them in terms of GUI and seamless performance. It records each and every step and action been performed in the application and produces a detailed report in a well-structured manner. It can connect and access seamlessly among various databases … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose TestComplete For their special field (API & web testing) I choose those products over TestComplete Incentivized Helpful? Atul Patil Senior Test Engineer in Engineering at HCL Technologies (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose TestComplete Below are the points why we selected TestComplete 1. Better UI. 2. Plenty of validation cases supports i.e. checkpoints. 3. Multiple scripting languages. 4. Better accuracy and robustness. 5. Good documentation and Video tutorials. 6. Great support team. Incentivized Helpful? Mohammed Mitha CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Information Technology at CK Services (Accounting, 11-50 employees) Chose TestComplete The major advantage over other tools is the ease of use. A chimp will be able to figure out TestComplete whereas the others require extensive coding knowledge Incentivized Helpful? alexandre elatmani Manager QA service in Engineering at DEDALUS (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose TestComplete TestComplete was effective and cheaper than quick test Pro Incentivized Helpful? Aravinda Kodihalli Seenaiah Project Lead in Information Technology at Mphasis (Biotechnology, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose TestComplete [...] Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose TestComplete I have used UFT, Katalon Studio. UFT has robust object recognition engine than TestComplete. For example, Katalon Studio supports Groovy and Java so it is easier for programmers/testers to automate apps in java as it is a popular language, but TC doesn't support it. Incentivized Helpful? Anil Kumar Moka QA Automation Lead in Quality Assurance at Capital One (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose TestComplete It's a great tool with a lot of in built features and support for cloud. In the market, there are many test tools available and there are many open source tools too. But this tool has some unique features which fair well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose TestComplete We selected TestComplete based on positive reviews and because it offers customer support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose TestComplete We evaluated Selenium as well. We chose TestComplete for the more friendly interface. Incentivized Helpful? Joseph C. Dormelus Project Manager in Information Technology at NextEra Energy Resources (Utilities, 10,001+ employees) Chose TestComplete We also evaluated Rational Functional Tester and QuickTest Pro. These other tools were a little more difficult to implement and very costly. They were not as flexible as TestComplete. The sales staff around TestComplete was friendlier and more responsive. They made us feel … Incentivized Helpful? Hassan Arshad Sr. Software QA Engineer (Test Automation) in Quality Assurance at KeepTruckin (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 1001-5000 employees) Chose TestComplete TestComplete was expensive as compared to the other tools that we used and did not live up to the expectation. Only good thing with TestComplete is that the test integration for multiple platform is pretty good and works well as compared to these individual tools as these are … Incentivized Helpful? Yuliya (Julia) Cherkasova QA Engineer in Quality Assurance at NCR Corporation (Information Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose TestComplete I used VS2010 CodedUI to create functional tests for the same product/application. Pros: ability to use a programming language such as C# for coding. Cons: limited object recognition; MSTest runner does not provide readable HTML reports. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose TestComplete Good image handling techniques, object repository, CI Bug tracking integrations will be a good opt for test complete Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Selenium	TestComplete
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (55 ratings)	7.0 (88 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.2 (6 ratings)	8.1 (6 ratings)
Usability	8.8 (6 ratings)	7.8 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	8.3 (11 ratings)	6.6 (7 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (3 ratings)	6.7 (4 ratings)

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