Evil Mudslingings against Selenium WebDriver

Selenium WebDriver is proved the best for testing web apps, and it ticks all the boxes.

Zhimin Zhan
9 min readSep 6, 2021

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This article is one of the “Be aware of Fake Test Automation/DevOps Engineers” series.

The follow-up article to “False ‘Selenium WebDriver Cons’” is the follow-up article. The reason for writing this article is that I have heard more mudslingings (false accusations to damage others’ reputations) against Selenium WebDriver recently.

I will give out my conclusion first: Selenium WebDriver is the best automation framework for testing web apps. As a W3C standard, Selenium WebDriver ticks all the boxes. Yes, let me repeat: Selenium meets ALL the requirements that shall be included in test automation (for a web app).

Proofs of Selenium WebDriver’s Success

  1. Selenium enables ‘releases twice a day’ at Facebook

“Facebook is released twice a day, and keeping up this pace is at the heart of our culture. With this release pace, automated testing with Selenium is crucial to making sure everything works before being released.” — DAMIEN SERENI, Engineering Director at Facebook, at Selenium 2013 conference.

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Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.