Ask HN: Is Selenium still the best automation tool in 2020?

Posted by qalearner on Sunday April 05, 2020 @01:10PM
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Would you choose something else in this area?

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Re:Ask HN: Is Selenium still the best automation tool in 2020? by sophiebits on Sunday April 05, 2020 @04:55PM (#22788660)

Playwright looks promising if you’re OK with a narrower range of browsers: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright

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Re:Ask HN: Is Selenium still the best automation tool in 2020? by vladislavp on Sunday April 12, 2020 @03:36PM (#22850516)

taiko (by thought works) https://taiko.dev/

also does browser automation testing. I think the headless browser it is using underneath is Chromium.

It is integrate with gauge

https://gauge.org/

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Re:Ask HN: Is Selenium still the best automation tool in 2020? by ajeet_dhaliwal on Sunday April 05, 2020 @08:43PM (#22789997)

It still has the least limitations with respect to browsers and broad support for different languages.

I would suggest editing the question to mention browser automation for testing specifically. Automation can be done in all sorts of areas and driving a browser for testing is a tiny area of testing too.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Selenium still the best automation tool in 2020? by shinryuu on Monday April 06, 2020 @02:05AM (#22791234)

Cypress.io is often recommended

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Re:Ask HN: Is Selenium still the best automation tool in 2020? by bdavid21wnec on Sunday April 05, 2020 @05:19PM (#22788827)

testcafe is ok. only javascript i think

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